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365 thoughts. I have a thousand per day. Maybe more. A lot revolve around money. Or dinner. A lot more about marketing. And writing. I think about telling stories all the time. But can i write 365 thoughts as blog posts in one year? I published 85 in October. I got advice to put it out there. To share more and list ideas. I did. I made .30 cents. I don't think I found new readers. Nobody went to KU to read through a whole series.  Maybe that wasn't the point. Maybe the point isn't a lot of money.  Maybe the point is to practice. Practice makes permanent. When instated running long distance, the best days were five to nine mile runs. I did them after work. They would take an hour. Or an hour and a half. I had my loop picked out and distances mapped. I knew the playlist.  It wasn't easy. But it was good practice for longer runs on the weekend. Practice made permanent. ...

CHAPTER FIVE This time he went for drinks. It was after noon which meant five o’clock somewhere by his reckoning and besides, it was his house and he could do as much day drinking as he liked. Gretchen trailed down the stairs, belting on her skirt under her untucked silk blouse. She had one of his old robes tossed over a shoulder and handed it to him as he passed her a tumbler with a stingy splash of bourbon in the bottom. He was out of rum. “Ice?” she asked. He pointed toward the kitchen and proceeded to sip his neat, like a gentleman is supposed to do. She came back with her ruined drink and sat in an arm chair opposite him on the couch. The picture window looked out over his front yard and the real estate housing development going in across the pasture. The light coming in gave her red hair a slight glow as she touched the glass to her lips and didn’t drink. Jake didn’t mind. He would just add what she left to his glass later. Waste not, wan...

If you can’t trust the news, who can you trust? No one. Not even yourself. The news lies to you. Every single day. Weathermen forecast. Which means they tell you what they think is going to happen, not what is going to happen. They model. They predict. They make it up. Sometimes they’re right.  So we believe them. Until they’re not, then we joke about them. Newscasters are the same way. Take the recent college admissions scandal. This is not news. It’s something that only affects less than 10,000 kids in North America.  Probably a lot less than that. The news is using Felicity Huffman and Lori Louglin as the faces of this scandal. Two moms who happen to be well known actresses who paid a fee to get their kids into a good college. The news is not showing you the sixty other “normal” people who did the same thing. Because the news has one agenda. To get you to watch.  The more you watch, the more money they m...

The only thing standing between you and what you want is you. Have you ever heard of the goal setting expression quote gun to your head unquote moment? It means how would you reach your goal and the shortest amount of time possible if you had a gun to your head. It is an exercise designed to make you think out of the box and come up with solutions you might not normally think of. Often small business owners use it as a way to think about revenue or growth or how to reach a monetary goal. But what if I told you the secret was discipline. This secret formula is proven over and over again and if you took him on it and think about it and reflect you would discovered that discipline is the key to anything. Let's say you want to lose 20 lb. You could wish it away. The law of attraction States if you focus on your goal hard enough the universe and God will reward you by giving you that gold. Do it right now. Wish on a start to lose 20 lb. Did it happen? ...