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kevinholochwostaut
- Aug 7
- 2 min
Find Your Metaphorical Garden
I want to introduce a new series on this site, which will be about your metaphorical garden and my literal one. Sort of. I don’t mean I...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Jun 22
- 1 min
When Nobody Believes
You have exercised every day for a month, but you barely lose one pound. You lift every day for three months and can barely add a pound...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Jun 13
- 2 min
What's Your Percentage?
How much negativity in your feedback can you stand? 10%... 20%? 90%? Every writer needs negative criticism. We need to be told no. We...
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kevinholochwostaut
- May 28
- 2 min
Bibliotherapy part 2:
Do you want to reduce stress levels, lower heart rate, and ease tension in the muscles? Usually, this kind of claim is a start toa bad...
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kevinholochwostaut
- May 19
- 1 min
Be Motivated, or Be Manipulated
“People are not lazy, … they have goals which do not inspire them.” – Tony Robbins. I have never particularly subscribed to Tony Robbins...
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kevinholochwostaut
- May 12
- 2 min
The Slope
I am going to postulate that life is about the slope of the incline. When we are young, high school seems hard, but if you are a...
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kevinholochwostaut
- May 4
- 2 min
I Dare You
Write down one day. I dare you. You are going to be upset, and if you are honest about doing it and what you want in life you are likely...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Apr 27
- 2 min
More...
Everything you make is worth more, the more any one thing you make is worth.
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kevinholochwostaut
- Apr 20
- 3 min
Less Than.
Everyone has had a moment when they look at the perceived competition and think to themselves, “I am less than…” The problem is, there is...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Apr 7
- 2 min
Your days are numbered…
But are they measured? A friend of mine said to me just this week, “I don’t have the time to…” This is the same friend who sends giant...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Word to The Young
I am not old yet. I am certainly not young anymore either by internet standards. At 45 I am comfortably slightly past the middle point of...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Mar 20
- 2 min
When the World Says No.
Who are you? Have you ever been pushed hard enough that you know? We don’t really know who we are until the world tells us, “No.” Find...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Mar 18
- 2 min
Bad Choices
We like to believe that if we work hard, we do everything as right as we can that life will present us with a series of options, where we...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Mar 17
- 1 min
30 seconds.
Thirty seconds at a time you can choose to waste your life, or spend your life in a meaningful pursuit. Americans spend an average of...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Mar 10
- 2 min
We Need You
I am not young, but by most measures I am not yet old. I am in that sweet spot of middle age. I am wiser than those who look up to me,...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Mar 2
- 2 min
What Is a Lot?
Is a one mile run far? Is writing 10,000 words a lot? Is lifting 400 lbs. strong? Is practicing your Spanish lessons one hour a day...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Feb 28
- 2 min
More Than You Think
You are more than you think. You can do more than you believe you can. When you were born you couldn’t count. You couldn’t read. You...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Feb 19
- 2 min
I could have been…
I could have been a writer, a professional athlete, a musician, a doctor, an actor, a chef, a business owner, a scientist, a teacher… If...
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kevinholochwostaut
- Feb 14
- 3 min
Be Kind. Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle
Most everywhere I look this quote or some variation of it is attributed to Plato or Philo or some other ancient Greek. Some sites...
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