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LIFESTYLE CHANGES TO MAKE NOW

September 25, 2023 by

Lifestyle changes? Either you make them or they’re made for you. This picture shows a flat bench with 225 lbs on the rack. You won’t take this off the rack if you neglected to protect your shoulders with lots of warming up. What about surgically repaired joints, like the shoulder?

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LOVE WORKING, AND OTHER MYTHS

September 24, 2023 by

Love working? Go ahead and love it up. Explain how anyone loves working makes you sound like you’ve never had a job. Have you? Did you love it? Here’s a view from coast to coast:

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CLEAN WORK OR CLEANING WORK

September 23, 2023 by

Clean work sounds like something you do in a clean room. Or an office. Wherever you don’t get dirty. Those jobs come with a number of names: clerk, assistant, manager, department head.

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LOVE DOING YOUR BEST WORK

September 22, 2023 by

If you don’t love doing your work as much as this guy, you may have the wrong job. Your best work deserves your best effort. Bring it with a winning attitude, a big smile, and over the top preparation. Or any combination of the three. You can’t reach your full potential if you don’t love […]

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CHANGING SEASONS = CHANGING CLIMATE?

September 21, 2023 by

Changing seasons were more of a mystery when human intelligence gathered and agreed that the sun and stars all moved around the earth. Back then we were the center of the universe. Man, those were the good old days. Or were they?

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GRASSROOTS WORK FOR THE NEAR FUTURE

September 20, 2023 by

Grassroots work for the future is making noise. In our digital age ‘grassroots’ means something different than other times. The Attention Economy asks but one question: “Can you make me care about your cause?”

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LOST HIGHWAY? GET A MAP, BOOMER

September 19, 2023 by

The Lost Highway by Hank Williams is every road ever traveled. Some longer, some shorter, but it’s the same road. You can say you’re not lost. Go ahead. But we’re all old enough to know better.

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HOME COOKING FOR WARM HEARTS

September 18, 2023 by

“Home cooking is best when . . .” Fill in the blank. Whatever you come up with is fine, but yesterday my group was amazing for many reasons. First:

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JUPITER HOTEL ON PORTLAND’S EAST SIDE: THE NEXT LEVEL

September 17, 2023 by

The Jupiter Hotel on Saturday felt like travel. A time before the meth epidemic, the opioid epidemic, the covid epidemic, the homeless epidemic, and every other epidemic. Why? Because of the fun sense of humor. “Make mine a fir burger?” I’m still laughing.

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USEFUL BOOMERS FOR MATERIAL CULTURE

September 16, 2023 by

Useful boomers should know things, the sort of things that show a certain level of awareness. Awareness is useful, so is cleanliness. Directing that awareness to history is even more useful. But it can’t be funky history, so let’s start with the basic question: What Happened? People need to know the right stuff.

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