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Do You Control Your Responses to Unexpected Stimuli?

“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”

Mahatma Gandhi

100% Responsibility

Early in a new year, I remind myself of some helpful principles I may have strayed from over the prior year. One principle that is very important for anyone that takes lots of action to achieve whatever he or she sees as success is to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in your life.

Event + Response = Outcome

It is the first success principle in Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles book, which I have re-read a few times because it is filled with great advice on taking charge of your life. Coupled with this principle is this little formula: Event + Response = Outcome. You will...

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11 Life Lessons That Spawned From My Shocking Attack

My Heart Attack Story

It was a warm fall evening October 9, 2018 in Holland at Strawberry Acres park pickleball courts at 630 pm and I was playing in an advanced league.  In the last few points of my last game, I picked up the ball and the whole world started to spin sideways quickly then I saw myself falling to the court.  I had collapsed and gone into cardiac arrest within seconds (flat lined, coded, dead, history, worm vittles…) without having any symptoms at all.  I started to turn blue and my playing partner, Dave Rice, started CPR quickly and the blue color went away.

I was playing against an MD (Dr. Greg Haselhuhn) and an RN (Becky Chen) on the next court came to help.  They had my airway open and could see air coming out of my mouth so CPR was working, but they were not getting any vital signs so they knew it was very serious.  Another player called 911 while other players found my phone to call my wife Beth to get to the courts.  They...

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