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Somewhere along the way you got lost To reconnect with yourself means to remember who you are. Remember what you like. You did like...
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Mark Craven
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Showing Up for Yourself
You can do very little for other people, if you haven't done enough for you It's a bit too easy to get caught up with the waves of life...
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Mark Craven
- Aug 8, 2021
- 2 min
Find Your Gift
Photo by Scott Evans on Unsplash Why should you spend any time looking for and working on your strengths and gifts? What's the payoff?...
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Mark Craven
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Redirection
You start on some paths with absolute certainty that this is where you’re supposed to be. But then you hit a few bumps, and your...
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Mark Craven
- Jan 6, 2021
- 3 min
3 Things You Don't Need To Be A Good Dad
I was always of the mindset that if I had a kid, all of my dreams would die. That’s a pretty bright outlook on fatherhood isn’t it? I...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 2, 2020
- 1 min
35
This isn't what I thought 35 would look like. I didn't realize that becoming a dad would be so important to me. I didn't realize I had it...
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Mark Craven
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
An Awfully Big Adventure
Kai is my proof that magic exists. Becoming a dad was something that I always feared. I feared it for a number of reasons. One being that...
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Mark Craven
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
In-Ground Pool
Today my cousin Vicky called me at 7am. She knew I’d be awake and I was. She told me that Lefty had passed away. Well she said that “pap”...
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Mark Craven
- May 2, 2020
- 2 min
There’s Nothing More Important Than Family
My younger cousin is graduating from college. Penn State University Class of 2020 School of Engineering. I’m so proud of this dude I...
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Mark Craven
- Apr 24, 2020
- 2 min
Quarantine
I hate this so much. There isn’t one part of me that that finds anything appealing about where we are right now. Shut in from friends and...
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Mark Craven
- Apr 17, 2020
- 2 min
I Don’t Ever Give Up
Does that resonate with you? It didn’t matter how much had come against you in previous pursuits, you just kept getting up and doing what...
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Mark Craven
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min
In The Same Year
So much can happen in just a year. It was within this last year that, first I went bankrupt and then I got hired in the highest paying...
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Mark Craven
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
We Have To Hope
The last thing I’m feeling right now is hopeful. What I’m mostly feeling right now is what most of us are probably feeling right now…...
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Mark Craven
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
How to Handle the Intangible
What if I handed you a strange looking object that you really weren’t sure about? You didn’t know what it was, what it did, what it could...
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Mark Craven
- Mar 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Dad I Didn't Have
I’m going to be a dad. And I’m going to be a dad to a boy. Erin and I found out that we were going to have a baby back in December. When...
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Mark Craven
- Feb 22, 2020
- 1 min
Why Not You?
Don’t answer that! It’s a stupidly easy question to answer. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources. I don’t have the talent....
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Mark Craven
- Feb 13, 2020
- 2 min
Maintaining Mediocrity
A good friend at my recent book signing looked down at the five books I had on display at the signing table and asked, “How the hell do...
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Mark Craven
- Feb 4, 2020
- 2 min
Everything Hurts
I moved back to Pittsburgh from Los Angeles in 2017. My heart was broken and so was my bank account. The only thing that I seemed to be...
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Mark Craven
- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
Couple Things
It takes some time to figure out what you really want to do with your life. Or at least figure out something that you’re passionate...
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Mark Craven
- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
“Therefore I Tell You…”
Once you’ve read several different books or articles on success or watched different speakers teach on the subject of attaining that...
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