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How many of you put so much emphasis on a particular day. Like your birthday, anniversary, or special moment you like to celebrate. One of the strengths that my wife and I have is we treat each and every day with the same value. Every day is just another day. This allows flexibility when something comes up, especially if it shows we are serving them. Shoot, I didn't get to celebrate my 50th birthday because of COVID. I may celebrate it when I'm 52 in February . . . because it's just another day. The celebration is what's important. 

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In my opinion, those who say happiness is overrated don't fully understand what it means to be happy. Happiness doesn't eliminate suffering, in fact, happiness helps you endure suffering.  Since happiness cannot exist with worry, it eliminates worry. The common theme in the articles I read claiming happiness is overrated was the pursuit of happiness. I agree with them. Pursuing happiness is not how one becomes happy.  

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Have you ever been prepared for something that you thought would go well and you fell flat? Maybe you were over-thinking it or maybe you just didn't have it. Those things are normal. What's not normal is getting up, shaking it off, and moving forward.  That's what champions do. They take setbacks as temporary and bounce back quickly. 

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I've had two really good talks in the last week to students at a local high school here in Las Vegas. The talks highlight the importance of learning personal finance at a young age to help overcome obstacles in life.  When you understand how finances work it impacts your mental health in a positive way. Not understanding finances when younger can get you into trouble like it did me - preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.  When we as adults know our destiny yet are trapped by the burden of debt, we are a shell of ourselves. Don't wait to KNOW MONEY; start managing your finances the right way now. 

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As a GEN X adult, I am sometimes corrected by GEN Z on words that I've used because they are offensive or inappropriate. Yet, GEN Z likes to use words that are inappropriate as a term of endearment.  

How do we monitor it all? We follow the guide. What is the guide? The dictionary is our guide. Let's go back to actually using the definition of the word when using the word. 

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Jon Gruden is, er, was the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders and resigned last week due to the context of his emails and how he feels about the direction of the NFL and players associated with it.  Aside from his opinion on the NFL's push for an agenda, people have come out sharing their experience of how poorly Gruden treated them.  This is greater than the race conversation, this is about how you treat others who have different beliefs or philosophies than you. 

For those who think that Jon Gruden is an outlier, he is not. There is a lot that goes on in the football culture that feeds into poor mental health for our young people.  Leaders in youth football look for the dirt in their players and they point out the dirt in their players. What do you think happens when they grow up?

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Here are four work models for multipotentialites from the book, How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick. 

1. Work Model 1 - The Group Hug approach: The Group Hug Approach is having one multifaceted job or business that allows you to wear many hats and shift between several domains at work

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Taken from the book, How To Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick, here are five things we multipotentialites do well. 

1. Idea Synthesis - we combine two or more concepts and create something new from it

1.  We know what a beginner fells like

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According to what I read in the book, How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick, I am a multipotentialite. A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits.  We don't gauge success through our expertise because we like learning and doing new things.  We don't quit because something becomes too hard; we quit when it becomes too easy. 

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As the Jon Gruden discussion heats up, I must share my experience last weekend being around youth tackle football. Jon Gruden's comments about someone's big lips don't compare to what coaches were screaming at their ten-year-old players. Yes, only ten years of age being cussed out by one of the most foul words in our language. The F-word is so overrated man it's not even funny.