Reading Time: 5 minutesYouth sports offer countless benefits beyond just physical fitness. Many of those benefits follow youth athletes into adulthood and their working lives. One of the most valuable lessons taught is the art of failing in public. Today, I’ll offer a perspective based on my own experience to explore how participating in youth sports equips young
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Reading Time: 6 minutesFrom Surviving to Thriving: How to Grow Through Adversity As I approach the three-year anniversary of being free from cancer, I find myself reflecting on the profound lessons I’ve learned throughout my journey. It has been a time of immense growth, where I’ve come to appreciate the remarkable resilience of the human body, the transformative
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAs a communicator, I understand and appreciate the power words have. Have you ever thought about the power a single word can have on your life? Typically, in December, I choose one word to help focus and guide me over the next twelve months. Jon Gordon, author of One Word that will Change Your
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Reading Time: 6 minutes“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to live.” — Marcus Aurelius We start fresh every morning, like a computer rebooting — clearing its cache, refreshing all the system memory registers — making it ready to start over again. A good
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Reading Time: 3 minutesFasting is a time for reflecting on one’s spiritual progress and making an effort to detach from physical and material desires. Are we physical beings having a spiritual experience? Or are we spiritual beings having a physical experience? I believe we’re the latter, and I’m reminded of that each year when I fast. Fasting
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Reading Time: 9 minutesFaith conjures up different emotions in people. Those who are devout possess a strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof. While others hear the word and understand it to simply mean “complete trust or confidence in someone or something.” It’s a journey, not
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Reading Time: 7 minutesAn important life lesson I’ve learned is “embrace the nonlinear path.” It leads to a career journey of resilience, purpose and success… as you define them. When I was young and my father was ill, I wanted to become a doctor. I maintained that desire until my second quarter of chemistry during my first
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Reading Time: 3 minutesArticle originally published on LinkedIn, June 2, 2022 Pausing is the new productivity; it contributes to increased clarity, greater appreciation for the work you do and higher levels of overall job satisfaction. If you skip breakfast, work through lunch and rapidly tick off tasks until you collapse at the end of the day,
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Reading Time: 2 minutes2020 will forever be etched in history as the year the world faced the COVID-19 pandemic. For me, it became a year of profound personal challenge and unexpected resilience—a year I faced something far more personal: cancer. It started with a lump on my neck, a seemingly innocuous sign that quietly signaled something much
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