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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the 5 Pillars of a Success Mindset: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!

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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the 5 Pillars of a Success Mindset: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!

Don’t Ask Why

This is something that I’ve believed and practiced for a long time, and also have been telling people that I sponsor for a long time. Much to my delight, I

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It’s Not About Me

A few weeks ago, on my way out the door, I stopped by my wife’s desk to tell her that I was heading to the gym. When she turned towards

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Expectations, Part 2

I talked two weeks ago about how expectations are a natural and even required part of interacting with the world. However, they’re also an area that is fraught with peril

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Expectations, Part 1

In the recovery community, we talk about “expectations” a lot. These are those times when we believe that someone else (or something else — a company, an organization, society) should

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Compassionate Self Talk

I was walking with my wife in the park a while ago, and we saw a group of people playing spikeball. There were three adults, one girl who looked to

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Fake It Till You Make It

“Fake it until you make it” is an idea that has been a part of recovery lore for longer than I’ve been involved in recovery, and has gained some additional

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Mirror Affirmations

I remember one time I had about two years in recovery, and I came to my sponsor with a problem. I don’t remember what the problem was (this was a

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How Do I Know?

This is one of my favorite exercises to help gain perspective and reset my thinking. It’s inspired in large part by Richard Carlson’s amazing Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, as

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