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The first weekend of May was supposed to include my first experience running the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon.  Well . . . my plans changed.  Instead, I spent three days stranded in a flood – literally.  I wasn’t clinging to a tree awaiting a rescue from the Coast Guard (which some people experienced firsthand), I was stranded in my apartment without cell phone service, internet, cable TV, and sometimes we lost power all together.  A couple weeks ago I had to cancel my marathon in Cincinnati because of a scheduling fiasco, financial limitations, and a startling realization at the Country Music Half Marathon that I wasn’t prepared for a full 26.2 miles.  You can read about the half marathon experience here.  I changed my plans for the weekend to include hanging out with my wife Tessa and our friend Kendall who drove up to Nashville from Chattanooga.  I knew the forecast included a few days of rain, but I wasn’t initially prepared for a catastrophic flood.  After the highway flooded, Kendall was stuck with us for the duration of the storm.  We made it work with lots of eating, reading, and trips to the Redbox for lots of new movies.

The Great Flood of Middle Tennessee

The flood, which brought in more than 17 inches of rain in some areas, caused widespread damage in the Nashville area and around (more…)

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Successful people are very similar.  It doesn’t matter what industry they work in or what passion they’re pursuing, there are a few shared habits that nearly all successful people possess.  Habits are some of the most powerful forces in your life and it is incredibly easy to predict your future based on your recurring choices.  For our purposes we’ll define habits as a recurring pattern of behavior.  In other words, your actions.  It’s not just what you do, but what you do OFTEN that will inevitably determine your destiny.  In terms of success, I’ll use Earl Nightingale’s classic definition: “the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”  In other words, your repeated progress towards something noble makes you successful.  By this definition, success is not an end destination, but instead it is something to be achieved on a daily basis.  That is why habits are so incredibly powerful, because they determine your level of success.  Ideally, you will make daily progress towards goals you have pre-determined to be worthy in your life. (more…)