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A Simple Powerful Truth
Were you ever just hit with a really simple truth? “You’re here for a reason” That sounds so cliché I almost can’t stand it. But for some...

Mark Craven
Apr 29, 20232 min read


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...

Mark Craven
Mar 8, 20202 min read


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...

Mark Craven
Jan 28, 20203 min read


“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...

Mark Craven
Sep 15, 20193 min read


Warrior
I’ve taken some time away from writing recently. I’ve had a lot happening this summer from moving in with my girlfriend to starting a new...

Mark Craven
Sep 5, 20192 min read


100 Things
My issue is that I focus on the one bad thing when there are at least one-hundred good things. My mind stretches toward perfection, a...

Mark Craven
Jul 17, 20191 min read


Conditionally Happy
I’ll be happy if all of the conditions of my life meet the standard I’ve set in order to allow myself the luxury of feeling happy. If the...

Mark Craven
Jul 8, 20192 min read


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,...

Mark Craven
Jan 20, 20192 min read


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,...

Mark Craven
Dec 1, 20183 min read


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...

Mark Craven
Nov 25, 20182 min read


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


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


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


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 25, 20183 min read


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 23, 20182 min read


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 1, 20182 min read


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 22, 20184 min read


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 18, 20183 min read


Passionless
I think this would be the worst way to live a life. Waking up every day with dread. Waking up every day with hate. Miserable with the...

Mark Craven
Aug 13, 20182 min read


suicide
Disclaimer: I am NOT planning on committing suicide. If I were, I’d tell you. You’re my reader, I tell you everything. I remember being...

Mark Craven
Jul 12, 20185 min read
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