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Monday Morning Boost: Resurrecting Discarded Dreams

Monday Morning Boost: Resurrecting Discarded Dreams

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We often view the success others experience, especially successful people of any type, through rose-colored glasses that make their life look easy and truly perfect. “If only we could have it easy like them,” we think to ourselves. This is a fallacy. Most successful people, from every walk of life, have walked a challenging journey to get where they are. They have overcome obstacles and, in most cases, continue to overcome obstacles. Just because we do not see the challenges does…

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Red Edge Perspective: Because of Him, No Goodbye Will Last Forever

Red Edge Perspective: Because of Him, No Goodbye Will Last Forever

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Thoughts of inspiration come in many forms, and may be expressed in many ways. The collection of stories, essays, and poetry shared under Red Edge Perspective represents some of my personal efforts to Gain The Red Edge through creative expression. Today’s message is a poem inspired by the Gift of Easter, and is dedicated to my stalwart example and eternal love as she seeks that comfort offered by the Prince of Peace. Thanks for letting me share. Because of Him, No Goodbye Will Last Forever…

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Monday Morning Boost: The Ghosts of the Enders Hotel

Monday Morning Boost: The Ghosts of the Enders Hotel

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Who is the ghost walking the halls? Did he die falling down the stairs? Was he shot and killed? Or is she a prostitute who was murdered in cold blood? The 101-year-old Enders Hotel in Soda Springs, Idaho, stayed silent, giving up no secrets when we visited this past Saturday. Even the ancient stairs refused to live up to their age, their creaking floorboards remaining hushed as we ascended. The pipes of the ancient boiler system did proffer forth a weak…

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Hidden In Obscurity

Hidden In Obscurity

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Questions have caused me to ponder The passage of the unheard drops of time Which pondering has inspired These words no longer silent. HIDDEN IN OBSCURITY By Les Patterson She passes As one who stalks nighttime shadows Hidden in the obscurity Of the surrounding unseen world. Invisible Unseen but not unfelt None escape her passage Impactful beyond measure. To shun or embrace The gift is ours Be it blessing or curse Such we are created to choose. Thoughts of inspiration…

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Monday Morning Boost: Does the World Need Another Writer?

Monday Morning Boost: Does the World Need Another Writer?

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The world does not need another writer. That’s exactly what I thought when I started writing the “Monday Morning Boost” 8 years ago. I’m having the same thought now as I’m starting to write a book. The crazy thing is, I am right! The world does not need another blog, nor does the world need another book. So why do I keep writing? Maybe, like Roald Dahl suggests, I’m foolish, chasing after the compensation of “absolute freedom” with no master…

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Friday the 13th Birthday!

Friday the 13th Birthday!

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Happy Friday the 13th! I know, it’s not Friday. But it is the 13th. The 13th of March specifically. And that’s reason enough to celebrate. But first a story. Friday the 13th has been my lucky day for as long as I can remember. And 13 is my lucky number. It all started with my first reading of “The Black Stallion” by Walter Farley. In the story, Alec Ramsey befriends and tames a wild Arabian stallion on a desert island…

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Monday Morning Boost: Do Vision Boards Work?

Monday Morning Boost: Do Vision Boards Work?

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Do vision boards work? I’ve been asked this question a handful of times since sharing last week’s Monday Morning Boost: Creating Vision to Rise. Some people over the years have suggested vision boards are just a bunch of hogwash. Their explanations may have been much longer and more detailed than just saying “hogwash,” but that was the collective point. Maybe they are hogwash. And who am I to say. As I told you last week I  haven’t really used a vision…

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Monday Morning Boost: Creating Vision To Rise

Monday Morning Boost: Creating Vision To Rise

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Why does telling ourselves a better story make a difference? Because the story we most consistently tell ourselves will be the story that most consistently comes true in our life. Jack Canfield supports this assumption: “Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind. And when those statements are the affirmations and images of your goals, you are destined to achieve them!” Telling yourself a better story will help you: discover more opportunities and fewer roadblocks…

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Monday Morning Boost: Winning Your Personal Olympics

Monday Morning Boost: Winning Your Personal Olympics

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Rejections, failure, and crashes do not stop our dreams from coming true. Not at all. If rejection did stop our dreams from coming true then “The Rejects” led by John Shuster would never be at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang let alone take home the Olympic gold. If fear of failure was the rule then Akwasi Frimpong, Ghana’s first Skeleton athlete, wouldn’t be dancing in celebration even though he came in dead last. If crashes kept us down then Shaun White would…

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Soaring On Sprouted Wings

Soaring On Sprouted Wings

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It’s an honor to see our children and those we love soar as they chase their dreams. Be they small or of epic portions, it’s an honor to be a part of fostering and nurturing those dreams to help them #GainTheRedEdge. Such thoughts have inspired this little poem. SOARING ON SPROUTED WINGS By Les Patterson A young child rises up Soaring on sprouted wings Fostered by family roots Chasing a nurtured dream. Urged at times prodded on Trying hard, falling…

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