My friends!
My daughter Scarlett got her first job today. She’s 14 and I know this is the place to share the news!
She created her resume, wrote an authentic personal statement highlighting her strengths to offset her lack of experience. She walked over to a commercial development near our house, all on her own and was so terribly nervous.
I went for a walk to shake off the anxiety I felt for her.
She came back in tears. She literally sobbed in my arms so proud of herself for overcoming the fear and stepping up to the plate. She got the job and starts Wednesday.
This girl was abandoned at the gate of an orphanage in China at birth. God brought us together. She is an amazing musician and has a soul that is meant for greatness. She is proof anything is possible and every life matters.
I have strong feelings about work ethic and the lack of it in today’s youth. I don’t blame them. I pity them and question who raised them.
A chapter in my upcoming book is titled “Don’t Steal Your Kid’s Dreams.” We steal our kids dreams by overindulging them. By not making them earn their own way.
Today I saw a piece of my daughter I have never seen. A pride she had in herself she couldn’t have gotten any other way. A triumph over fear in something she didn’t have to do. I would never want to deprive her of that by giving her an easy road.
Don’t forget to make your kids earn it like you did.
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
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Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
