Embracing Gratitude and Positivity
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Who Has Time for Patience?
My wife Reneé and I recently took a trip to Los Angeles to visit our son and daughter-in-law. We had a wonderful time taking in the sights, basking in the pleasant weather, and most of all visiting with the two of them. What wasn’t so much fun was what happened as we started out on…
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Shifting Gears
In November 2018, Risa August received the stunning diagnosis that she had a rare pituitary disease that resulted in a large pituitary tumor at the base of her brain. Two months later, following brain surgery and only partial removal of the tumor, she underwent six weeks of radiation treatments. On top of all that, her 18-year marriage…
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How to Create a Culture of Gratitude and Positivity
We can all contribute to building a culture of gratitude and positivity, in our homes, our workplaces, and within our social circles. It’s not hard, and it can help to make the world—or at least our small part of it—a better place. You’re not responsible for and have no direct control over how other people…
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Keep Moving Forward
In his younger days, Chris Bonanno was an active and athletic person who worked on Wall Street, ran a nightclub, and was a walk-on for his college cross country team. All of that changed with the discovery of a spinal cord tumor. The eventual surgery to remove it ultimately left Chris paralyzed from the chest…
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Who Are You?
No, this is not a post about a song by the rock group The Who. It’s about the importance of being ourselves, even as the world oftentimes calls us to be someone else. You know those situations or occasions where you take on different personas, depending on who you are with or what’s going on?…
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Light in the Darkness
I was in the hospital recovering from a sudden cardiac arrest in the summer of 2022 when a doctor came into my room to discuss a course of action to address my immediate and long-term cardiac health issues. As he reviewed what I had experienced a few days before, he kept saying “when you died.”…
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It’s a New Year—Seize the Moment!
It’s a new year, the traditional time to set goals and make resolutions. But how many of us actually keep our resolutions and achieve our goals? The experts say the best way to honor resolutions and accomplish goals is to be realistic and specific, prioritize, set deadlines, find an accountability partner, write things down, track…
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Want Some Inspiration? Grab a Good Book and Start Reading
There is something magical about a good book. It truly allows you to live in the moment because your focus is on the words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages that for a brief time grab your attention and perhaps take you to a different place and time. Books are not just enjoyable. They can be thought-provoking,…
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Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving—and Every Day
As we celebrate another Thanksgiving holiday, let’s show our gratitude for those we’re thankful for by telling them. This simple act of kindness is easy to do and means so much. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the readers of this blog. You’ve stuck with me on my journey, and you’ve been supportive, encouraging and…
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This is Tough, but I’m Tougher
To be honest, I wasn’t going to write this post. In fact, I wasn’t sure I wanted to write any more posts at all. Sometimes, we just get physically and emotionally drained to the point where positivity, gratitude and mindfulness seem like distant concepts. But I decided to write it because—like every other post on…
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