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    • A New Straw Man
    • To Appear Busy
    • With the Best We Have
    • Consider what it will be like to be gone
    • Never Quit on the First Day
    • On Pacing
    • What is your metric of success?
    • A simple guide
    • Confession and Gratitude
    • Virtual bubble
    • Drifting a river or overcoming enemies
    • The long haul
    • Are we happy?
    • On Selecting a Mentor
    • One at a time
    • Making decisions easy
    • Making cases to ourselves
    • Information: Collecting and synthesizing
    • On outcomes
    • The good and the bad
    • Towards being intentional
    • Jack of all trades, Master of none
    • A student and a patient
    • External validators
    • Finding your hill
    • A focus on food
    • When the best has come… and gone
    • On the wrong side of history
    • Nuts on both sides
    • An Internal Standard
    • What else would I be doing?
    • A Dynamic Character
    • Hard for the sake of being hard
    • Pursuing happiness
    • Make your own compass, find your own north star.
    • Do what you are able
    • For the patient
    • New
    • With Great Joy
    • A Founding Father and the Fourth
    • A Founding Father and the Fourth
    • #1206 (no title)
    • Good and Evil: The Changes Inside
    • Finding Home In Friends
    • Categorizing Millennials
    • On Balance and Efficiency
    • On New Transitions
    • Changing For A Better Story
    • A Beginning, A Middle, An End
    • On Being Nothing
    • Complexity and Gratitude
    • Read, Think, React
    • Healthcare reform: an issue of heart
    • Changing environment, changing ourselves
    • Because it works
    • Real vs. Imagined: Competition
    • The best we have
    • Finite or infinite? the present choice
    • Adept Adaptors
    • To live forever
    • A review of history
    • A career or a calling
    • Consistent and persistent
    • Myself, the problem
    • On Consistency
    • Considering Our Breaths
    • On Enough
    • On Thankfulness
    • On defining ourselves
    • Finding Functional Faith
    • On Balance
    • On Striving
    • Thy Neighbor: Isolation (Part 1)
    • Answers we should not seek
    • A numbing adaptation
    • We must care…
    • What a Journey
    • All we do not see…
    • On Honesty and Lying
    • Time and Talents
    • Moving through mountains
    • If I did not have ________.
    • The Me in MoveMEnts
    • Resilience
    • “Do your best”
    • Beliefs and blinking
    • Pursuing excellence, together
    • Reading Books and Living Life
    • Empathy Over Entertainment, Compassion Over Consumption, and Love Over Luxury
    • Special (pt1: a small part of nature)
    • Breathe. Grow.
    • Breathe. Grow.
    • Real and Genuine
    • Meaning and making marks
    • Composing and comprised of
    • Of Men and Microbe
    • About This Blog
    • Love, an end and means
  • SEASON II
    • S2.3 Relatively Defining
    • S2.2 Welcoming the Sceptic, Inviting the Questions
    • S2.Intro: Welcome to Season II

Monthly Archives: August 2016

Myself, the problem

G.K. Chesterton is said to have responded to the inquiry “What’s wrong with the world today?” with two simple words. “I am.” This must be where we both start and end. I am what is wrong with the world. My faults contribute to the brokenness we see. My actions, outright or inadvertent, cause pain andContinue reading “Myself, the problem”

Posted byJR StanleyAugust 18, 2016August 15, 2016Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Myself, the problem

On Consistency

I recently went to watch a movie with a couple friends. One of my favorite parts about the cinematic experience as a whole is the trailers at the beginning of the movie. With only a few exceptions, the two or three minute trailers promise a great story line, interesting characters, and a great balance betweenContinue reading “On Consistency”

Posted byJR StanleyAugust 14, 2016August 11, 2016Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on On Consistency

Considering Our Breaths

“the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.” “The main message of Jesus, I believed, isContinue reading “Considering Our Breaths”

Posted byJR StanleyAugust 10, 2016August 6, 2016Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Considering Our Breaths

On Enough

“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”  Most people have probably had this said to them by a parent, friend or mentor; however this is often easier said than done. Growing up my dad would say occasionally say this to me. Then it was easy to act on as it usually pertained to notContinue reading “On Enough”

Posted byJR StanleyAugust 6, 2016August 6, 2016Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on On Enough

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