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  I’m good at reminding others to take care of themselves.   I’m less good at actually doing it myself.  I know  that this probably holds true for many of us. Right now, as we are continuing to grind through a world that is still in flux, taking care of yourself is mission critical.  So as we begin to move toward summer, its  important to remind us all of a few parts of this… and hopefully  just hopefully make  taking care of ourselves feel slightly less  shameful.  

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.   One of the things that I remember quite well from last year  at this time was how energetic and productive I was.    The garden boxes , the the table, the yard and garden were done and incredible shape. The universe was making things difficult, but I was personally kicking a little ass.   

But life is a marathon, not a sprint.  And that manic energy, at least in my case has waned as pandemic time has marched on. 

I keep looking at things and thinking:  I should have this done.   I should be further down the road on that.  

And I come back around to I’m so damn tired.  

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We all have our reasons for doing things.  At times we don’t truly recognize it ourselves.   Even when we are acting at what seems to be our most altruistic there are often elements of selfishness inherently built in to our actions.   Most of the time it may not matter as long as the “good gets done” At other times, those bits of selfishness, whether  they are unconscious or not can cause real  damage.   Today we are going to touch on both factors while looking at somethings I observed this week at a youth football game

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Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast, I’m Chance Whitmore. on some level it would be nice if TRUTH was a capital T  ruth rather than something we need to dig into to discover.   And with the 24 hour news cycle (which is more interested in being first and interesting rather than accurate), social media (speaking of interesting over accurate… easy of spreading inaccuracy and lets not forget bot accounts!) Being credulous has become extremely dangerous. And while there are more ways to create and spread misinformation, Fake news and propaganda than I can count at this point, I’m going to something I’ve been wanting to do since before I thought of this podcast:  start the discussion.   In this case digging into the very beginnings at the subject of DoubleSpeak.  For no other reason that words have been weaponized against thinking and only by looking seriously at it can we fix this.  

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Dichotomies fascinate  me. Right now it seems to me that are living in  culture that seems to be made up of almost nothing else.  Part of this can be but down to the shift nature of  our culture.   Some of it is me noticing things that were already there, but the ways the puzzle pieces continue to change and yet still slide together is just short of a miracle.   Today I thought I’d look briefly at one of these contrasts; how subcultures  cannibalize the very people they should be supporting.

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.  The last year travel, especially travel to see family has been severely curtailed foremost of us.   My family had camped  and  road tripped in our area of the state while  keeping to isolation last summer—but it has been months of a dry spell in travel.  This week  changed that.   Spring break started.  My wife and I are a month past our second vaccination and my parents have also been vaccinated.  So we made a weekend run for the first time in  a year. 

It turns out travel is like anything else.  If you are not doing it, you get rusty. As I learned to my chagrin .

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Welcome to a very special bonus episode of  Strive Seek Find: Irish Whiskey edition.  Irish Whiskey the second type I fell for  during my journey into whiskey love my trip.  So tonight we are going to try four whiskeys  and tell you which of the batch win’s the  highly coveted Best in Liquor Cabinet Award.  

Happy St. Patrick's Day

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 Once again  changes are in the air.  Our friendly neighborhood  Global pandemic seems to be fading black.  There's a feeling that normal Is right around the corner., or at least a less stressful version of now; which will slow congeal into a new normal.  But today I thought it might be fun to mention some of the things  we learned during the pandemic that I  would like to hold on to even as things  "normal" returns as well as what I'd like to get back to as the world reopens. 

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There is nothing like an  discussion with your kids.   Attacking a problems,  watching them consider a solution with  fresh eyes.   Even if it does come from one of the intentionally weirdest conversations I could have had its a amazing to watch them grow  And the real world twist that brought the point home for me and gave me a growth opportunity alongside of my daughter.  

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I don’t know about you these days  but I find myself CAPITAL E exhausted right now and I have a feeling, based on my   not terrible astute as normal observations,  I’m not alone in this feeling. 

So pry your eyelids open,  get off the couch and 

Let’s get started.  

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