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  • SEASON I
    • “God is in control”
    • 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
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    • 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: October 2018

Never Quit on the First Day

  Starting things are difficult. Whether it is living in a new city, starting a new job, going to a new school, or standing at the beginning of anything for which you do not have a good routine, the start is rough. When I run, the first three miles are always painful. When I startContinue reading “Never Quit on the First Day”

Posted byJR StanleyOctober 27, 2018October 22, 2018Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Never Quit on the First Day

On Pacing

  long distances there is a sense of panic and urgency that can sneak up at unexpected times. It is an insidious breathlessness that creeps up when you are not paying attention. Beginning with a slight feeling of discomfort and a desire to get to the finish line faster your pace picks up a smallContinue reading “On Pacing”

Posted byJR StanleyOctober 6, 2018October 6, 2018Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on On Pacing

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