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Monday Morning Boost: Creating Vision To Rise

Monday Morning Boost: Creating Vision To Rise

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

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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Monday Morning Boost: And Justice For All

Monday Morning Boost: And Justice For All

The Pledge of Allegiance is a sacred oath, representing the best ideals of our country. And the best blood. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, Last week it was my honor to accept an invitation to lead the Pledge of Allegiance before the House of Representatives of the State of Utah. The invitation came via Rep. Kim Coleman. Once in the elected two-year term, each representative is given the opportunity to invite someone to lead the Pledge…

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Monday Morning Boost: Surviving Cancer & Thriving

Monday Morning Boost: Surviving Cancer & Thriving

Cancer is scary. It evokes fear of the unknown. You worry about the pain and losing your hair. You worry because you don’t even know the questions you should ask. You worry about how long you have left to live. Cancer attacks the old and the young, the strong and the weak. It cuts short many beautiful lives. Children grow up without parents, and parents say goodbye to their children way too early. But it also does something else… Cancer…

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Monday Morning Boost: Where Are The Statesmen Like Churchill?

Monday Morning Boost: Where Are The Statesmen Like Churchill?

Where are the statesmen like Winston Churchhill? I’ve been pondering this thought over the last week since seeing the “Darkest Hour.” We were invited by our friends Terrell and Pam Clements to see this epic political tale set during the early days of World War II. Hitler’s army at the time was rapidly marching across Europe. Countries were falling. England was next on the chopping block. The British, along with French and other Allied troops, had been pushed against the ocean at Dunkirk,…

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Monday Morning Boost: Being A Connector

Monday Morning Boost: Being A Connector

Someone in our family might say Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty had it right all along. Founders of the 1970’s Scottish rock band Stealers Wheel, the du0 are best known for these iconic lyrics: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” We’ll leave the semantics of defining clowns and jokers to the linguistic experts, but suffice it to say, if you’re the middle child in a family the…

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Monday Morning Boost: Don’t Force A Shutdown

Monday Morning Boost: Don’t Force A Shutdown

It is wrong a group of grown men and women elected to represent the citizens of our country cannot compromise and work together for the common good of our entire country. There is a better way. Abraham Lincoln understood it. “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”…

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Monday Morning Boost: Change Your Thinking Change Your Life

Monday Morning Boost: Change Your Thinking Change Your Life

I was sorting through a cart full of books at a library several years ago when a few books haphazardly stacked on the top shelf fell over. As I stacked them onto the cart, one title grabbed my attention. “Change Your Thinking Change Your Life.” At the time I was struggling with a perpetual feeling of darkness and low self-worth and I was looking for something that would help raise my spirits. This self-help book by Brian Tracy ended up being exactly what the…

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Monday Morning Boost: RIP Staff Sergant Greg Low

Monday Morning Boost: RIP Staff Sergant Greg Low

Staff Sergeant Greg Low had a trademark mustache. White and bushy and never within Army regulations. SSgt. Low never let regulations get in the way of taking care of a soldier. He was one of the first men I met when I transferred to the Logan Army National Guard unit in 2000. He was the full-time supply sergeant. There are two men you never wanted to get on the bad side of in the Army. Your first sergeant and your…

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Monday Morning Boost: Finding My Smile

Monday Morning Boost: Finding My Smile

Smiling for the camera energizes me, lightens my stress load, is a lot of fun, and helps me Gain The Red Edge! I know what you’re thinking… Getting your picture taken isn’t really fun. But it can be. I promise you! We had our family pictures taken on Christmas Eve and it was fun. I mean, it was a LOT OF FUN!!! But I didn’t always think so. You see, there was a time I was too ugly for picture taking…

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