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Inspiration is like taking a shower; for best results we have to get it often! Tune in to the Hashtag Positivity Podcast for accessible and actionable principles and practices for experienci...

Everyone has a unique gift that can be used to help others. Check out this brief story to learn how one woman’s gift to her husband provided...

Public opinion can create conflict for hairstyles, music styles, and literary styles—but Rick Nelson and the Inuits have a possible solution...

There were things I didn’t know I didn’t know, but if I had learned anything, I knew there were questions that were not even on my radar yet...

Who’s the real villain here? The people who abandoned you at the first sign of vulnerability? Or the ones who recognize your worth and raise...

When you show up as your authentic self, your mere presence alone can do the talking. Check out this episode to learn more, and hear the sto...

In the book Typewriting Behavior , August Dvorak discusses what he calls intelligent behavior , referring to the adoption of new technologie...

It's been said that a happy life needs only three things: something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for. If lately your heart...

A good game provides the joy of accomplishment, skill-building, and meaning; but these joys don’t just have to be all fun and games—they can...

We can wait our whole lives for someday opportunities, or we can make our opportunities for ourselves. Check out this brief story to explore...

Regardless of what we achieve and regardless of what we gain, everything is temporary, in a constant state of vibrato—whether deep or shallo...

That’s the thing about making people wrong: They don’t like it! And instead of being grateful, they can become resentful—preventing positive...

Motivation is ever-present. It’s not that we lack motivation; rather, it’s a matter of what we’re motivated by. Are we motivated by what we...

Sometimes, objective reality is replaced by subjective reality, and embracing this complexity and nuance just might open the door to perspec...

We don’t need to chase people who don’t want us in their lives, for our hearts will be better served spending time with people who do want u...

In every moment, we are in a constant current of change—and while we cannot control this current, what we can control is what happens within...

The world can sometimes feel dark and weary—shrouded by nuances of fear, jealousy, and rage. Yet, like the moonshine on a world shrouded in...

When we fail to see the beauty around us, perhaps it’s not so much that we lack the capacity to recognize and understand beauty in our world...

I don’t really know anything about anything, but what I choose to believe we are here to Love one another. But I wonder how useful this choi...

No one likes to be wrong—and people especially don’t like to be perceived as wrong by others. But in our search for certainty, we would do w...

Every time you meet someone, a part of that person becomes woven into the fabric of who you are—because when two worlds collide, both are tr...

Anything worthwhile will by definition take a while—likely even much longer than expected—but it will also by definition be worth it in the...

It can be easy to forget who we are while responding to the demands of the world around us. This can be true whether we’re fighting a litera...

A mere “oops” and a playful laugh is not what you might expect when damaging a brand new vehicle, but that’s just how Dave is—as long as I’v...

We cannot go through life without making mistakes—it’s simply an inherent part of the human experience. Yet when we lack the willingness to...

Just as a sports team doesn’t take the field alone, so too can we benefit from worthy coaches, guides, and mentors who know the way, go the...

When compelled to be grateful for what we aren’t grateful for, it can do more harm than good—yet research is still clear that gratitude is n...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem suggests that any event with a probability more than zero can happen at some point, if given enough time. But as...

Everyone has a talent, and if you don’t know what your talent is, it just means you haven’t discovered it yet. Talent can sometimes first pr...

We will never be held responsible for what we are not capable of handling—or at the very least capable of learning. As such, responsibility...

Magicians are often asked, “How’d you do that?” Many people assume it has something to do with subtle misdirection—a little smoke here or a...

Many people seem to suffer from eisoptrophobia—the fear of seeing one’s own reflection. When this happen, they fail to see what’s right in f...

It’s been said that “if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live,” and if this is true then Harry Chapi...

Despite his lack of experience, Hiroshi was able to succeed through honesty, anticipation, and imagination—and you can use these same princi...

It’s been said that the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. This episode shares the story how proce...

A compassionate mission can empower you with the grit to persist even the face of adversity. This episode shares the story of how a courageo...

The glitz and glamor of success will always pale in comparison with significance. This episode shares the story of how one man sacrificed pe...

It's easy to respond in kind when others treat you as invisible—but the true test is when they try to get an emotional reaction out of you....

Regardless of knowledge, skills, and talent—and regardless of how bad we want it—not everyone achieves their goals. But that doesn’t mean th...

Carl Jung once suggested that “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, b...

Some people may never consider giving business to competition, but as one of my mentors, Rick Forgay, taught me: the true value of competiti...

The physicist Marie Curie reminds us, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...

Love doesn’t get to know you first and then decides to love you. Love loves you first, and that’s how it gets to know you. Love starts with...

Each and every one of us has a unique blend of knowledge, skills, experiences, connections, and temperaments, and when we lean into these un...

When walking through the wilderness so dreary with a heart so weary, it may be tempting to simply lay down and give up; but even in the dark...

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones,” says Confucius. For most people, this is just a metaphor, but for Dashr...

We can reasonably discern the story Robert was telling himself as he turned his back to the crowd—when his final roll was spent and had noth...

Are you chasing two rabbits? Are you serving two masters? Is your house divided? Check out this brief article for reflections on consolidate...

What’s moving you today? Pain, knowledge, or support? Check out the brief article to distinguish which driver of change is moving you. Enjoy...

Whether you’re a teacher creating lesson plans, a sales person creating pitches, a storyteller creating stories, a family creating a home, o...

Even before you finish speaking, people will have forgotten most of what you said, but with the use of meaningful stories, when you “pull th...