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Soulful Sundays: Fears
"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." - Mark Twain Our brains make wonderful tools, but terrible masters....
Blake Storey
Oct 24, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Burnout
burn-out: (noun) exhaustion of physical or mental strength or motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration ...
Blake Storey
Oct 17, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Back to Basics
Imagine that you are a psychiatrist and a patient comes to you by referral. His other doctors can't figure out what's wrong with him. ...
Blake Storey
Oct 10, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Yoga
"Yoga is the practice of quieting your mind." -Patanjali When I first heard about yoga I was skeptical. Albeit, I was 18 years old and...
Blake Storey
Oct 3, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Hard Choices
"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life." -Jerzy Gregorek "To the wise man all things are difficult, thus nothing is...
Blake Storey
Sep 26, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Burdens
"With great responsibility comes great power." -Not From Spiderman And "With great power comes great responsibility." -Uncle Ben...
Blake Storey
Sep 19, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Lines and Circles
"No matter where you go, there you are." -Confucius One of the biggest struggles that I have is wrapping my brain around getting older. ...
Blake Storey
Sep 12, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Infinite Games
"All conflict is the result of inner conflict." -I Ching "The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but...
Blake Storey
Sep 5, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Two Brains
"There was once a farmer in ancient China who owned a horse. “You are so lucky!” his neighbors told him, “to have a horse to pull the...
Blake Storey
Aug 29, 20214 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Strength Training
"Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not." -Mark Rippetoe Strength is the...
Blake Storey
Aug 22, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: The Hero
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." -Bob Dylan "Everything can be...
Blake Storey
Aug 15, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Habits
"Practice doesn't make perfect; practice makes permanent." -Anonymous Somewhere deep in my brain a voice exists that demands perfection. ...
Blake Storey
Aug 8, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Antifragile
"Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes a fire." -Nassim Taleb A few years back I read a book called Antifragile: Things That Gain From...
Blake Storey
Aug 1, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Dunbar's Number
In 1990s Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, developed a controversial theory about the upper reaches of the human brain for social...
Blake Storey
Jul 25, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Pain
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." -TPB Temporarily ignore any negative associations with the...
Blake Storey
Jul 18, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Group Health
When I was in grad school I had the pleasure of being taught by an exceptional teacher. Not only was he talented in the practice of...
Blake Storey
Jul 11, 20213 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Freedom in Surrender
An old Buddhist parable goes something like this: Two monks, one elder, one younger, were chatting quietly as they walked the old road...
Blake Storey
Jul 4, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Small Victories
Just the other day I was able to do something that I hadn't been able to do prior to this year. I did several handstand pushups in a row...
Blake Storey
Jun 27, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Labels
Language is one of the unique characteristics of being human. No other animal on the planet has the same command and diversity of verbal...
Blake Storey
Jun 20, 20212 min read
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Soulful Sundays: Grease the Groove
Ernest Hemingway, one of the most prolific American authors, had a habit of routinely leaving his work unfinished each night before bed. ...
Blake Storey
Jun 13, 20212 min read
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