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This is the 200th blog post I’ve written since 2015 when I started my first website. An average post is around 600 words–sometimes less,...
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Mark Craven
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
Breakthrough
Have you ever sat back and wondered where the hell that breakthrough is? You know the one. After you faced the storms and had yourself...
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Mark Craven
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
No Wind to Fill the Sails Moments
I just had a good conversation tonight with a friend about how we tend to get caught up on only the highs and lows of life and ignore the...
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Mark Craven
- Mar 16, 2019
- 3 min
Your Pain Is Valid
When I worked with the insurance company, the president/CEO had a few methods for motivating that I’d say were at best, ineffective. At...
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Mark Craven
- Jan 20, 2019
- 2 min
Rewrite
I’ve heard that if you don’t have some regrets by the end of your life, then you really didn’t live. That’s reassuring, in a sense,...
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Mark Craven
- Dec 1, 2018
- 3 min
The Man Who Lost His Imagination
Sometimes I wonder and almost fear what will happen if I run out of material. I mean, I’ve put a ton of work into building websites,...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 25, 2018
- 2 min
Your Beautiful Endless Heart
Really, the only constant in life is change. Things that I thought I knew yesterday are not the same things that I know today. Especially...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 14, 2018
- 2 min
It Soothes My Suffering, That’s Why It Helps Yours
I’ve written before and often thought about how doing something that I love to do and really live to do can help other people. It helps...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 12, 2018
- 2 min
Staying Stagnant and Miserable Does Not Just Eventually Turn Into Joy
Why would you move back here? That’s the same question I used to ask when I’d meet someone that either moved back to Pittsburgh or to...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 10, 2018
- 1 min
We Still...
Isn’t the human spirit something that’s amazing to behold? Looking over the events that have taken place recently, specifically the mass...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 7, 2018
- 3 min
PUNK ROCK!!!
Ok, I was more of a metal-head growing up. I listened to bands like Six Feet Under, Cradle of Filth, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse… But I did...
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Mark Craven
- Nov 5, 2018
- 2 min
100 Pages Of Poetry
Today I read a little more than 100 pages of poetry. That’s kind of easy to do because many times there’s really only a single sentence...
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Mark Craven
- Oct 26, 2018
- 3 min
Impossible Achieved
We have to be somewhat realistic with our dreams. Meaning, we have to realize that life keeps on being life even if we’ve achieved the...
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Mark Craven
- Oct 24, 2018
- 2 min
I Changed My Mind
It’s been a little while since I’ve written something. I was fully consumed in creating this new website. As I’ve said in a prior post,...
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Mark Craven
- Oct 14, 2018
- 2 min
Success Up Ahead
In 2015, I started a tutoring business. I called it, The Tutors (clever huh). I had myself and two other people going to client’s houses...
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Mark Craven
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min
What Am I Waiting For?
It kind of hit me yesterday that I always seem to be in this place of waiting for life to really begin. As if I’m not actually present...
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Mark Craven
- Oct 8, 2018
- 3 min
Learning Something New
So I’ve spent the last week learning how to put together a website using WordPress. By early next month, I plan to have this whole site...
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Mark Craven
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
ANXIETY!
Which of you out there reading this right now have a closer relationship with that word than you’d like to? Me too. It seems like...
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Mark Craven
- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
A More Important Question to Ask Rather Than What To Do With The Rest Of My Life Is What To Do With
I’m not as concerned with the rest of my life as I am with right now. Right now is where I am. It’s where I’ll always only be. Even ten...
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Mark Craven
- Sep 25, 2018
- 2 min
What Do You Write About?
This is the hardest question for me to answer. People tend to be looking for something like, “Nonfiction… Young Adult… Fantasy…...
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