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Why a False Start is Better Than Standing Still

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Photo Credit: غzǻҰёll ♥ RAINBOW ! via Compfight Real life and the things that cause us to grow 10 feet in a year happen outside your comfort zone.    I love the this story from Patti Digh’s book Life is a Verb  about the kids in a kindergarten classroom. When asked if they could sing,  [...]

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The Worst Case Scenario is You’ll be Better off for Having Done It

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Photo Credit: Bertrand Monney via Compfight  One of the curses of a vivid imagination is that you’re able to dream up catastrophic worst case scenarios  Ending up on the street Losing everything you have Losing all your friends Never falling in love Ending up in a lousy relationship Being Stuck where you are forever In [...]

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How to Really Learn From Failure

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Photo Credit: Sybren Stüvel via Compfight You’re probably familiar with the popular saying that “there is no failure, only feedback”. I think that is a very powerful and inspiring statement. However, it is also incomplete. It is true that failure can constitute feedback regarding what you’re doing wrong, which permits you to adjust your actions [...]

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The View from the Water

Under the Docks in California

Photo Credit: Trey Ratcliff via Compfight I’ve stood on the pier at Huntington beach watching the surfers more than a dozen times. I usually don’t surf the pier because it’s too crowded.  Yesterday there was no crowd because the surf wasn’t so great. It was a blown out choppy mess. So I decided to surf [...]

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Finding the Courage to Speak

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  Hey, fellow Skool of Life readers! My name is Shai, and I blog over at The Vagabond Studio. Now that the incredible Fear Project has come to a sad end, I wanted to take a moment to share with you what the Fear Project and Skool of Life has done for me over the [...]

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