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That Thing That Gets Stuck in Your Head
“I am a remarkably strong-willed, intelligent, and inspiring individual who had given the best of my emotions to alcohol. I no longer wallow in my own misery. I am in control of my anger. I am the...
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Find What You ‘Love’, But Do What You ‘Are’
As in, apply a dose of realism to the old adage, “Find what you love to do, and get someone to pay you to do it.” I feel as if the majority of people that walk this earth go through life without ever...
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The In Sound From Way Out, Pt. II
Continuing the retrospective, I had realized that I had responded well to social stimuli, and that I was operating with a fair level of comfort & confidence throughout. Following that venture, a...
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Grateful Sunday (Thursday) #19: The Half-Year Milestone
Monday, June 3rd, 2013 officially marked six months of alcohol-free life for me. Via a nifty little app called “From That Day,” which allows you to set & track noteworthy dates. As I believe every...
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Caffeine Nicotine Silverscreen Daydream
What motivates you to get up, leave the house, and spend an obscene amount of coin for a ticket to see a movie in a theater? I have been to maybe five or six movies a year, for the past few years. For...
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XII.
HD. Here we go, Camp 12! My first SOBER festival. Will report back next week with tall tales and successful sobriety. Happy weekend! Tagged: camp bisco, festival, Music, sobriety, vacation
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Grateful Sunday #24 & #25: Spontaneous Serendipity & An Overdose Of Awesome...
The past few weeks have been abnormally fun and just generally positive for me. I spent much of June sweating the cash situation on whether or not I would be able to scrape enough together for a...
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Grateful Sunday #36: A Refresher on ‘Fresh’
“Psychologists have long agreed that one of the greatest enemies of human happiness is ‘hedonic adaptation’ – the predictable and frustrating way in which any new source of pleasure we obtain, whether...
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Grateful Sunday (Thanksgiving Edition) #37: A Retrospective
I have much to be grateful for this holiday season. Much more than usual. I have probably never before in my life known this depth & breadth of gratitude, to be honest. Admittedly I don’t leap...
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Grateful Sunday #42: I’m Not a “Businessman”; I’m a Business, Man
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate...
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The Larger Impact of Smaller Accomplishments.
Today, I am 22 months sober. Today, I also broke 400 miles in total distance on the jogging app that I have been using for tracking since the end of May 2013. In a wilder, more chaotic life, such a...
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Mid-Week Mental Management
Another impossibly busy week at work. When your company’s business is the stock market, and performance tanks, belts are tightened, ties are straightened, game faces are set, and we push on through...
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Life Slice
Gratitudes: – black coffee (this is essentially a given but today it really played) – KIND®-brand protein bars (lifesaving sustenance) – when my manager hands me a midday list of tasks and says, “But...
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Raw. Real.
No sooner did I sit down to write this post than did I accidentally find myself at the most evocative intersection of media, one which totally caught me off guard and now I’m just sitting here in...
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Higher Ground
Today’s gratitude: how fairly easily I arrived at my interpretation of the “Higher Power” concept found within the 12-step recovery program. A lot of people get into drinking or drugs because they...
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Dirtybird is the Word
Mentally checking out for the rest of the evening, after a week of late nights & long days. Doing myself a kindness and going into New York to dive into a set of thumping music, and push everything...
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Exhale
February was pretty a pretty turbulent month for me. Finally after the first week of March, life seems to be settling out again. I don’t have much to say tonight except that I feel gratitude in my very...
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March 13, 2015
Well, it happened: I missed a daily entry in my attempt at a year-long streak of blog posting. This situation was born of a long day / late night on Thursday, that resulted in a Friday morning in which...
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New From Old
So if you know anything of ELO, you probably know the song “Evil Woman.” It’s a tried-and-true staple of classic rock, featuring what may well be the most-recognized series of keyboard notes that...
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Morning Meditation
One of the biggest drivers of productivity at my office desk is a solid playlist. It never ceases to amaze me how much easier it becomes to stay focused on a singular task or even a list of tasks,...
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