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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...

Mark Craven
Nov 12, 20182 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Nov 10, 20181 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Nov 7, 20183 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Nov 5, 20182 min read
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Sad Day
Jenna sent me a message on Snapchat. I didn’t respond so she followed it up with a text, “Hello where are you?” “At Starbucks. What’s...

Mark Craven
Nov 2, 20185 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Oct 26, 20183 min read
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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,...

Mark Craven
Oct 24, 20182 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Oct 14, 20182 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Oct 10, 20182 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Oct 8, 20183 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Oct 2, 20182 min read
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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...

Mark Craven
Sep 30, 20182 min read
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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…...

Mark Craven
Sep 25, 20182 min read
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Healing Old Wounds
I was a reading a study conducted by Harvard that followed a cohort of people beginning in 1938 throughout their lives. They wanted to...

Mark Craven
Sep 23, 20184 min read
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Looks Like I Wasn’t Actually Believing In Myself
I wasn’t believing in my own dreams. How the hell can you do that when you’re writing, speaking, coaching, teaching, and reading on...

Mark Craven
Sep 21, 20182 min read
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Someone Needs Your Heart
It’s easy to forget our pain from the past. Maybe a childhood where we were picked on or bullied. And now we’ve grown up into strong men...

Mark Craven
Sep 19, 20183 min read
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That’s Impossible. You’ll Never Do That.
I had wanted to move to California for so long. Even before I ever visited, I knew I wanted to live there. It was something that burned...

Mark Craven
Sep 17, 20182 min read
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Advocates, Benefactors, Sponsors, Well-Wishers! Thank you!
I’ve been in love with writing for a long time and when I get feedback from people to the tune of, this changed my life, I’m stunned....

Mark Craven
Sep 13, 20183 min read
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Coming Out Of The Fog
I had a good friend, who’s not a life coach, offer me her life coaching after she read my last few blogs. She saw that I was in a place,...

Mark Craven
Sep 11, 20182 min read
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Eating Elephants
I realized when I decided to restart my coaching business that I had a million ideas. A million brilliant thoughts flowing along with the...

Mark Craven
Sep 8, 20182 min read
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