From the monthly archives:

August 2011

Choices & Small Wins

A little disclaimer first: This is for the growing health freak in me so if you like eating McDonald’s or drinking the family size coke then you may not want to read this post it may make you sick. Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr I realized a few months back that I was becoming a real [...]

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Want To Be Successful? Become A Buddhist

  Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr Chris Guillebau has a very informative and beautiful blog called The Art of Non-Conformity, and a few days ago he posted this piece – Legacy Projects and The Love Of True Friends.  In the post, he essentially states that you should not expect your friends and family to be at all excited about your [...]

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Never Never Never

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr Every morning I wake up and I read a post by Seth Gobin – he is a genius to say the least.  A few mornings ago I woke up to read this post – Delivering On Never.  I let it sink in while I made my morning protien shake and thought [...]

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Good Morning – The Path To Greatness

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr The path to greatness is never easy, if it was everyone would be great.  There are incidents and events that sometimes serve to stretch our very being, things that challenge us at our core.  Like always we must embrace these events, learn from them so as to deal with them better [...]

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A Fatty Liver

Source:  Jarel Cockburn Flickr Two years ago I was diagnosed with a non-alcoholic fatty liver. I was overweight for my age and a long way away from the athlete I used to be. A really long way. Eating whatever and whenever had been my approach to nutrition and exercise was a distant memory. My liver [...]

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Fearlessness, Tunnel Vision & The Yacht In Brazil

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr From time to time I read this article -Wide Receiver Jarel Cockburn Drafted 48th CFL’s Argonauts.  This article was written almost 10 years ago, 11 days before my 23rd birthday {I am dating myself, I know} and just a couple of weeks before graduation.  By this point I had interned on Wall Street, [...]

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Passions

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr “Passion” is such a catchy word these days.  All the self-help gurus and the wannabe self-help gurus preach about finding your passion and living out your dreams.  I believe there is some truth to it.  But how do you really go about it?  How do you fit it into your lifestyle? [...]

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