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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Retention

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Retention

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Quotes from Me: “Keep digging, keep doing research until you get enough details to make a well-informed decision.” “Curiosity is highly underrated.” “Focus on results.” Quotes from Others: “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso “You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?” – Confucius “When we enhance someone’s quality of life and sense of purpose, we enhance these attributes in our own life.” – Mary Osborne Quick Optimism: If you don’t know what to…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Stick With It

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Stick With It

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Quotes from Me: “The need to be right comes at way too high a cost.” “Give everything you have.” “There is too much waiting around for life to happen.” Quotes from Others: “What I learned on my own, I still remember.” – Nassim Taleb “Practice even what seems impossible.” – Marcus Aurelius “A person who never made a mi stake, never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein Quick Optimism: You owe it to yourself to create wealth. That’s health, love,…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: One Life

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: One Life

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Quotes from Me: “Don’t leave anything for later, for later life goes by.” “Too many people mistake surviving for living.” “The challenge will always be the escape.” Quotes from Others: “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim “This hard place in which you, perhaps, find yourself, is the very place in which God is giving your opportunity to look only to Him.” -Elisabeth Elliot “People who say it cannot…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Time

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Time

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “A lot can happen in a week. Practicing optimism can make “a lot” feel better.” “Every day, in every way, show up and help out.” “External approval is always fleeting. There is always more external; more people and things that command our thoughts and aspirations. Aspire to be your best, that is what you can define, and control.” Quotes of the Week from Others: “Do you think that I count the days? There is…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Growing

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Growing

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Quotes from Me: “How much is too much to manage?” “You are the only one responsible for your emotional reactions.” “Do what you can to embrace life’s impermanence.” Quotes from Others: “A seed fears neither light nor darkness, but uses both to grow.” – Mathshona Dhilwayo “Do what you can, when you can, with as much love and honesty as you can, and when you can’t, rest.” – Nanea Hoffman “Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Proud

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Proud

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Quotes from Me: “There are very simple ways to show people they are worth your time. Put in the effort.” “I feel grateful for so many things.” “A fitness influencer, whatever that title means, won’t tell you that sometimes a 5:00am workout alarm still means unplanned bonding with your kids.” Quotes from Others: “Deep conversations with the right people are priceless.” – Unknown (Remember how much I love quoting Mr./Ms./Mrs. Unknown? I love it.) “When something is truly right for…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Veteran’s Day, Beach Week

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Veteran’s Day, Beach Week

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Quotes from Me: “Happiness is a day at the beach.” “My favorite color is sunset.” “I’m at the beach, see you next week.” Quotes from Others: “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” – Unknown “If you need me, call me on my shell.” – Unknown “Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Don’t Fix Unbroken

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Don’t Fix Unbroken

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Quotes from Me: “We can all disagree and still love one another.” “Being mean to others can be a sign of unhappiness with yourself.” “Sometimes aimless innovation fixes what isn’t broken.” Quotes from Others: “When a clwon moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” – Turkish Proverb “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” – Gilles Deleuze…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Opportunities

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Opportunities

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Quotes from Me: “Know yourself.” “Take an interest in humanity. After all, human beings are the most interesting thing in the world.” “Commit to genuine intentions.” Quotes from Others: “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” – Kahlil Gibran “Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of reality.” – Ayn Rand Quick Optimism: Every experience makes you wiser. Go rack…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Intelligence, Success

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Intelligence, Success

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Quotes from Me: “If the why is clear, the how is simple.” “Are you in the best place to maximize your development?” “You see what you have been told to see.” Quotes from Others: Only one this week: Success “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to…

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