The world is a busy place. Thanks to current technology, we have it all in the palm of our hand. I could wax on about the dangers of social media, but you’ve heard it all before. Even the call to shut out the noise is getting noisy. I’ll go ahead and date myself. I remember […]
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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” -Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) In my book, I refer to this poem (or prayer) and turn it on its head. Through a Daily Practice in service of your Vision, we can […]
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When I was 16, I read The Power Of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peal. I still have the exact copy in my library. For the next two decades or more, I read many other books and listened to many hours of lectures on having a positive outlook on life, and the power of optimism. […]
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Habits, as a means to personal development, have been written about for centuries. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.” Aristotle* (384-322 BC) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is […]
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Hindsight being 20/20, it can be easier to connect the dots of our lives looking back. When we find ourselves disappointed or surprised by life’s twist and turns it can be difficult to remember that everything, even fear, is temporary. Write about a moment in life that might have gone seemingly wrong at the […]
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Today marks a change in format for our Daily Prompts. The past 60 days have been issued from The Lyceum Method Course Journal. Today, we expand our daily prompts to include introspective practices outside of the specific structure of The Lyceum Method. -Cody Enter: Tali… Every experience, every moment has the potential to […]
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If you’re new to Daily Prompts, you may want to start at the beginning of the series here. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post for a PDF version and other notes. Year______ Month_______Day______Consecutive Practice Days_____Missed Days______ Day 60 Gratitude: (Spend a few moments writing about the things you’re grateful for. Lined […]
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A lot of what I’ll be saying here might be obvious to some of you. But from my perspective, a nearly 30-year-old who’d consider themselves misguided and unpracticed for most of that time, the understanding of resilience is still in its early stages. I quit almost every afterschool program my mother signed me up for […]
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If you’re new to Daily Prompts, you may want to start at the beginning of the series here. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post for a PDF version and other notes. Year______ Month_______Day______Consecutive Practice Days_____Missed Days______ Day 59 Gratitude: (Spend a few moments writing about the things you’re grateful for. Lined […]
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If you’re new to Daily Prompts, you may want to start at the beginning of the series here. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post for a PDF version and other notes. Year______ Month_______Day______Consecutive Practice Days_____Missed Days______ Day 58 Gratitude: (Spend a few moments writing about the things you’re grateful for. Lined […]
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