Personal Development

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The key to a better life is through a better you. Personal development is a lifelong journey. My experience has been that compensation is highly correlated with personal development. Great people do great things. Sure, sometimes people get rich without the work, but it’s a short term inefficiency that is usually short lived.  Wealthy people…

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State of Mind

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KLARITY LIFESTYLE CO – SIMPLE LIVING Weekly thoughts from the forklift… ….originally published December 2018 How do people get off track?  How does someone become a workaholic? Go from grace to an addict?  Become an over-eater?  We weren’t born this way right? Well, somewhere along the way we forgot that we were in control of…

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Take ownership and regain your power…

Originally published in 2018, while walking the Camino de Santiago. Please excuse the grammatical errors. As a 22 year kid, I was secure and confident.  Life so far had been full of success, the attitude of “if its going to happen its up to me” was ingrained into me through my youth.  My efforts were…

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Good Morning to Focused Optimism

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In today’s world, it’s never been easier to confuse being busy with being productive.  Being busy may even help one climb the corporate ladder and have mild success, but at some point the inefficient approach won’t maintain. At the highest levels of success, there exists certain practices that just can’t be half done.  One of…

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Loosen Up

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We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. If you’re not having fun with your life, it’s time to make some changes. No matter what’s going on in your life, loosen up! To desire success is a great thing, but pursuing it with clinched fists and too much…

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Superpower

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We all have our own superpower, that one thing that we are extraordinarily good at and that when we do it, we discover endless amounts of energy.  God has given us all this one thing that makes us unique.  It makes us…well, “us”. The more we live a life away from this thing, the more…

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Help

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We love it when someone asks us for help, yet most of us hate to ask for it ourselves. Help and strength have a very weird connection. It seems that no matter what end of “help” you are on, whether you are giving it or receiving it, it makes you stronger. It makes you better.…

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Importance of Listening

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We all suffer from spiritual narcolepsy.  As soon as we start feeling really connected, as soon as we think we have it all figured out, life happens (and its usually something pretty minor that sets us off). Just like that, in a matter of seconds, we find ourselves on an island of crazy, looking out…

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Who You Hang With

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Time is our most precious asset, how we spend it defines our lives. If you struggle with managing your time, begin with just focusing on spending it with the right people. Who you hang out with is maybe the most important decision you can make each day.  Why? Because we are really just an average…

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Kicking the Can Down the Street

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Life is about action. It’s that simple, yet that hard.  If you want big change, it starts with little things.  We as humans have a natural desire to take the path of least resistance. Our innate reaction is to choose immediate pleasure over any kind of uncomfortableness.  Rather than make our bed right now, we’d…

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