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Gain the Red Edge: Trapped Inspiration

Gain the Red Edge: Trapped Inspiration

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Some of the best creative inspiration can happen during the midnight hours when our mind is open to the weirdness of dreams, the inspiration of Heaven, and our brain’s natural ability to create is working overtime. That’s a great way to Gain the Red Edge. Today’s inspiration was none of that. Today’s inspiration came very quickly and not during the midnight hours. It was inspired by the lyrical words of singer, songwriter and author Casey Stark. I don’t fancy myself a…

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Halloween Wacky to Gain the Red Edge

Halloween Wacky to Gain the Red Edge

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Trying something a little wacky and offbeat is a great way to Gain the Red Edge. That’s why we love Halloween so much. We dress up like our alter-ego, our want to be hero, or in most cases, just something totally crazy and off the wall! Just check out the picture. That’s me hanging out with Jimmy Birman (aka Clark Kent) and some of the staff at Stevens-Henager College in Logan. And if that ain’t living proof pardner, I don’t…

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Monday Morning Boost: Magical Fall Moments

Monday Morning Boost: Magical Fall Moments

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Magical moments happen when we pause and let the beauty of life infuse into our soul. Such a magical moment happened Saturday as I raked the leaves in our front yard into a huge pile underneath our 20 year old silver maple tree. I was absent-mindedly going through the task at hand while listening to a podcast with headphones in. The silver maple continued to gently rain down her bounteous leaves as I raked, starting anew to cover the fading green grass…

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By Small Means, Greatness Comes to Gain the Red Edge

By Small Means, Greatness Comes to Gain the Red Edge

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The Lord teaches we can be the means He accomplishes great things. “And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things” (1 Nephi 16:29, Book of Mormon). We are each one of those small means. Every moment we have the incredible privilege of using our agency to consciously choose to take action and make a difference. Let’s make conscious choices to change the world by changing how we think and changing what we do….

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Dave Ramsey’s Help Gaining the Red Edge

Dave Ramsey’s Help Gaining the Red Edge

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Dave Ramsey does one thing really well. Help people create financial peace. In our personal lives. And in our business lives. Dave has created Entreleadership to help business owners: Build stronger teams Find Better People Get Bigger Profits My Discovery Destination is hosting a free live streaming of Dave’s Entreleadership event this Friday. Dave’s Entreleadership has been one of the best business books I’ve read. I trust you’ll find the principles helpful as well. Take advantage of this free training opportunity to learn from…

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Monday Morning Boost: Chasing Our Pot of Gold

Monday Morning Boost: Chasing Our Pot of Gold

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The pot of gold lies not at the end of the rainbow, but in the journey of discovering the beauty the storm creates. That’s where we start to Gain the Red Edge. We can put all our efforts into dreaming and fantasizing of the mythical. What will that do for us? Nothing. Or we can create the future. We put every ounce of our effort into creating a vision leading to a change in our thinking. We become inspired to…

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Monday Morning Boost: Remembering the Kings and Queens of Our Family

Monday Morning Boost: Remembering the Kings and Queens of Our Family

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It’s good to have days where we can remember family and friends who have passed away. Today I am remembering my mother, Carolyn Shirley Christiansen Patterson. The picture above is my mom and dad holding me when I was just a baby. Mom would have turned 71 on October 12th. But I’m betting, she would still look like she was 59! That’s how old Mom was when she passed away. A lifetime of living with Rheumatoid Arthritis took a heavy toll…

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Friday Date Night Cleaning the Church to Gain the Red Edge

Friday Date Night Cleaning the Church to Gain the Red Edge

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Friday night date nights are a great way to Gain the Red Edge. Such was the case last Friday, a Friday the 13th to boot! My lucky day since I was a kiddo. Elisa and I joined some neighbors and friends for an exciting Friday night date cleaning our local church. Yep. Cleaning the church. Once a year most families in our congregation get the opportunity to participate in cleaning the church. This week it was our turn. We joined up…

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Monday Morning Boost: Thanks Julia For Seeing Our Potential

Monday Morning Boost: Thanks Julia For Seeing Our Potential

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What’s a mother to do when her first baby girl falls in love with the kid on the other side of the tracks and decides to get married on their second date? Worry and wonder what exactly her daughter is thinking! Such was the dilemma my now mother-in-law Julia faced when Elisa came home after our second date and announced we were engaged. It wasn’t so much that I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, though the…

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Choosing to See Butterflies Rising From Cocoons of Darkness to Gain the Red Edge

Choosing to See Butterflies Rising From Cocoons of Darkness to Gain the Red Edge

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Life is so incredibly beautiful that even in the midst of tragedy, butterflies of hope continually come forth from the cocoons of darkness. To see those butterflies is one way I choose to Gain the Red Edge when life is heavy and dark. “The beauty of a new life is a gift from Heaven like a butterfly coming forth from the darkness of a cocoon.” One of those beautiful butterflies was the birth of our first grandchild when baby Savannah…

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