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Trying Not to Miss Out on Anything Is Making You Miss Everything

June 5, 2025

Three years ago the middle school swim team here in town was in danger of folding – there was nobody to run the program, and not wanting Kasen, Gretchen and Marit to miss out on the experience, I stepped up. I had been the head coach of the program before, but I hadn’t run the

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Stop Setting Yourself On Fire

June 3, 2025

Divorce has been a real-life intensive course in boundaries for me. At first, it taught me that I had none, and now it’s teaching me how to establish them. But what the heck are boundaries? Boundaries is a pretty popular word these days, and I think it’s also misunderstood. Especially by women my age and

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Young Grasshopper Is Learning

June 1, 2025

Ingrid’s swim coach has built a great swim lesson program and he runs it out of the university pool where she trains. Many of his swim lesson instructors are college students. They teach lessons to make some money during the school year, and some stay at school and work during the summer, too. Ingrid became

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1% Improvements

May 29, 2025

When it comes to money, you probably understand the concept of compound interest. Unfortunately there isn’t a whole lot of talk about compound interest in the rest of your life. But it’s always there. Just like money grows with small, consistent investments, the same principle applies to habits, mindset, and progress. Every choice you make

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Consistency makes progress. Intensity makes a good story.

May 28, 2025

If your default mode of thinking, doing, and being is all-or-nothing, THIS IS FOR YOU! Black and white, all or nothing, perfectionistic thinking is a big obstacle for so many of us when we are trying to do just about anything. We jump into challenges like 75 Hard where the only thing that counts in

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Failure is Feedback

May 23, 2025

You’re going to mess up. You’ll blow off a workout, lose it on your kids, forget about an appointment, overspend, get distracted from your goal. And when you do – because we all do – the words you say to yourself afterward matter more than the mistake itself. Failure isn’t the problem. The way you

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