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Will you listen?

I have a simple philosophy regarding making mistakes: if you are committed to personal and organizational growth, attempting to offer your best, willing to take risks and stretching beyond your comfort zone, you will make mistakes. If you haven’t made a mistake lately I would contend that you are playing it safe and settling for average. Who wants to live that way for very long?

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Writing your story in 2018

Deep down in every human heart is a longing to live the story that someday we would love to tell. We can do our best to shrug off or discredit that desire, but it still simmers and is always present.

So as we enter a new year, let’s take this opportunity to evaluate the story our lives are writing. On Dec. 31, 2020, if you and I sat down in front of a television and I put in a DVD of highlights from the next three years of your life, what would you want to see on that television? When your time here on earth is done and your name comes up at your family’s holiday gathering or at the coffee shop, what story do you want someone to tell about you? Are you living the life today that will produce the story tomorrow that you would love to tell?

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