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Continue reading →: Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.William Goldman said: “It is not writing, it is re-writing.” Hemingway said: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down to a typewriter and bleed.” Trying to pull words out of the ethos is fraught with so many subtle complexities. Each pass at writing copy or any…
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Continue reading →: In the end, these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?In our chaotic world, punctuated by countless distractions, diversions, stresses, and work requirements, it is very easy to lose sight of the variables that matter the most. Wishing you a week complete with the most important assets in your life portfolio❤️
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Continue reading →: There is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.Showing people how to be better is a task fraught with complexities on so many levels as to at first seem far more daunting than one might expect. Most people, myself at the top of this list, blanch at any opportunity in which we are confronted by lessons that we…
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Continue reading →: Wisdom begins in wonder.I believe there is great value in being perpetually curious. Curiosity delivers information… some valuable and some extraneous. But in either case, the stimulation of the information triggers thoughts, emotions, and fears… then fuels the energy necessary to stimulate change. In the study of so many of the brilliant minds…
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Continue reading →: Why complicate life?How many times have you counseled somebody on something that they are vacillating about? How many different ways from Sunday did they contemplate all of the what if’s? Sometimes, I think we all complicate some of the simplest decisions. We churn over all of the outcomes, hoping we are accurate…
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Continue reading →: It is better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.When you are lost in darkness, everything is overwhelming. Your perspective is decimated by lack of tangible visual stimuli and as a consequence you find yourself in a void of despair. Despair is immobilizing in so many different ways, sometimes it feels like the best you can do is keep…
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Continue reading →: Nothing ever gets easier, you just get stronger.Remember when? All of those incredibly difficult chapters that you have lived through… at the time, each one seemed almost insurmountable. And yet, here you are. How does this happen? It’s certainly not that everything suddenly got so much easier. Each life experience gives us opportunity to grow. Whether we…
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Continue reading →: Abundance is not something we acquire, it’s something we tune into.Approximately 38 years ago, my wife and I started trying to have a child. This led us to a 10 year quest of trying everything under the sun to make this happen and yet, at the end of 10 years and countless excruciating procedures that my wife had to endure,…
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Continue reading →: On this path, let your heart be your guide. For the body is resistant and full of fear.What ultimately does it mean when we say, follow your heart? Does it mean it is appropriate for us to discard rational perspective and yield entirely to emotional whim? Or perhaps, in the course of following one’s heart, one discovers that the traditional boundaries of fear may be more elastic…
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Continue reading →: When the student is ready, the master appears.Of all of the aphorisms that I have encountered and validated through my own personal experiences, this is one of my all-time favorites. There are so many times when we, as students, are ill prepared and therefore not ready for our next big lesson. But, almost without exception, as we…
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Brian Weiner 