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 In life we will face conflict.   It is as certain as sunrise and  Internet trolls.  While conflict can be good and healthy part of life.   At other times  conflict becomes more trying as people try to pull an emotional reactions from you in order to gain advantage. How you respond or don’t respond speaks impacts your long-term success  or failure in these situations.  In the process remembering that what is momentarily gratifying isn’t necessarily what helps you with long-term success. 

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Perfection.   We are supposed  to seek it, to work toward it find ways to make it happen. Who set that bar?  Realistically… Perfect  rarely happens outside of a computer model. And yet most of us have cut our teeth on chasing perfection.  In the last six month that drive has been upended as people were dumped out of their comfort zones, their status quo disrupted, home lives brought to the forefront.  We are now experiencing a special level of stress.  Normally competent people prepandemic are experiencing a crisis of identity as they struggle to complete normal tasks and are distressed when their product is far less than perfect.  Today Chance discusses the failure of perfection and the 'functionally ugly way forward.  

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I recently spent 30 minutes staring at the spines of travel books.  Dreaming.   I don’t “go go go” all the time, but I like the possibility,  especially now when there is no possibility of leaving the country it feels especially poignant. It got me thinking of things I have learned on my trips so far.    As well as  how they can apply elsewhere.   Let’s be honest I’m suffering from travel withdrawal… and the prescription is a long time coming.

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Today on Strive Seek find we are going to take a look at the importance of relationships in life and work as well as the way they may have evolved during the Covid Crisis.  In either case  relationships tend to be  critical to our long-term success  and mental health,but where do the relationships start and how do they continue to function.. that is the question I’ll briefly attempt to answer.     

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Over the past few years it has felt  like we have seen people become more  entrenched and inflexible in their thinking.  Stuck in belief  even when faced with overwhelming proof to the contrary.      It is an understatement to say that it makes things frustrating.  Whether we are talking Flat earth, science denier, people who learned history from Wolfenstein games or any of the other nuttiness that seems to be pervading the Internet.  it becomes easy to believe that this is a new problem… that we were smarter in the past, but if you truly look back….  That may not necessarily be the truth So today I’m stepping back in time and looking at 4 examples of times people held on to wacky beliefs.

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Some days you just need to go off the rails.   Do something different  and perhaps have a little fun  In that vein  today Chance  going to step in and share 5 products that if you catch him  buying… You should run immediately because he's been replaced by a pod person.

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When we first went to stay at home here I had a great deal of nervous energy. Sleep was a distant memory and “time away from work” was only a theoretical since work and home existed in the same space.  I’m sure many of  you have similar stories.   This created a surge of nervous energy as I started to figure out exactly  how to separate the two parts of life… and the  on deal with the unknowns we were all facing. I hit anything from honey dos to new challenges., My wife baked and started making masks.  Both came from a similar place.  Stress from unknown and loss  of “normal”.  Putting these projects into action kept us   balanced in an uncertain world and their results  are nice touch stone of the last  months…  in success, failure and any lessons I may have learned.   After all  its important to practice what you preach.  
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Professional writers fascinate me. The focus and dedication they  show to their craft.  The creative grind.   It is something that I would like to experience at some point in my life, but they tend to be a different breed.  JMS, Gaiman,, and others weave dreams for the rest of us to enjoy.  To me that is an amazing thing.  Sometimes we don’t get what we want from these situations.  Sometimes an author stamps complete on  a work in such a way that we don’t necessarily get the next part of the dream.  S.   Today we are going to address on of those times:   Why George R. R. Martin will never finish Game of Thrones! 

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In today's episode Chance briefly talks about how to work from stress to gratitude as a method of getting back to an even keel.  

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 We are rapidly heading into fall and that means a change in our activities.   Well at least it normally does. Despite our attempts to return to normal, so many of the touchstone that we use to mark the passage of time or to create entertainment or distraction are  altered or lost for the time being For me the fall has traditionally represented a change in focus My old school love of football…  even after 14 years out of coaching I still fell the sport tug at me.  Fall represents time to chase football,  High school FB on Friday nights.   College on Saturday… and of course watching as much Eagles football as I can on Sunday….   Movies or plays to fill in the gaps…   a shift from outdoor runaways    And  as things stand right now…   all those  are not going to look  like that traditionally have… HS football no fans… College football  social distancing… NFL same…. And that is assuming we have those at all. So today I’m going to offer some alternatives to your normal fall .   For our sanity’s sake we need to change things up a bit. 

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