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A man stops to ask directions, only to be told, “You can’t get there from here. If you were in Freeport, you could get there, but you can’t get there from here.”

So he asks how to get to Freeport. “See. That’s the hard part. You can’t get to Freeport.” Continue reading →

It’s a much mourned fact of life that watching exercise videos doesn’t build muscles. It takes sweat and effort to build muscles. And so it is with emotional muscles. Continue reading →

Cervantes said, “Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.” As a matter of fact, a faint heart never won much of anything. But put a little determination and will into that heart, and it can shoot the moon. Continue reading →

Couch potatoes never know what muscles they could build if they spent their couch time at the gym. On the couch, even repetitive bench pressing of the biggest, baddest universal remote won’t build a noticeable muscle. And the same holds true for exercising our talents. Continue reading →

And it’s not about becoming the world’s oldest living lemon-stand vendor Continue reading →

The whole world’s in the label business. Every time we turn around, somebody’s jamming a label on us. Not those “Hi, My name is” stick-ums, Not any sort of tangible, visible label, in fact, but psychological Post-It® notes. Continue reading →

You’re not perfect. I’m not perfect. Nobody’s perfect. Give it up. Continue reading →

The magnificently sold idea of tolerance is, in fact, destroying our highest and best values in life. Continue reading →

Job’s comforters always show up when your life’s in a shambles–and promptly make things worse–even as they’re persuaded they’re on the side of angels. Continue reading →