To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard Day Seven – Music and Mayhem As I relate these tales, I feel foolish. I feel foolish becoming excited over the smallest things. I feel foolish looking at the rewards I gained for the risks I’ve taken …
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Wait, what happened to Friday? Did I totally wimp out and give up on this thing? Let’s be realistic, it wouldn’t be the first time I stopped something midway because I found something else that interested me before.  Ohhh shiny! No, no… let me break this down a bit. Friday Chicago suffered crazy rainstorms and …
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Is it possible to love a maxim? It is quite possibly a silly thing, but I do really like this maxim. I am a patriot. I am an American in the truest sense of the word since I worship at the Temple of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, …
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.†– Sven Goran Eriksson Here I am, just beyond the midpoint of my personal social experiment, and I’ve hit my first real obstacle. The nothingness. Not the nothingness that comes with nihilism but the nothingness that comes with literally no fear based obstacles in my …
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Day Four: Slaying the Phone Dragon Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. – Don Miguel Ruiz The phone rings. The phone rings again. The phone rings yet again. If it rings …
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DAY THREE – Thwarted by Timing, Saved by Asking For Help You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Facing my fears has proven just as difficult as I …
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