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The Switchback Secret To Doing What Scares You

November 30, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

I stared at the phone. My torso felt like an ice box. Maybe I could weasel my way out of this? It was a stupid idea. Nobody wanted to talk to me. I reached for my phone and pressed on the digit buttons. The phone emitted tone after tone like a dying robot. More than …

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Category: Marketing, Mindset, Origin Story

Spiritual Insights From Hiding My Illegal Car At A Supermarket Parking Lot

November 28, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

In the early winter of 2012, I stood in front of my condo building and stared at my parked car. Someone had scrawled on my driver’s side window in burgundy gunk. Vandalism? I lived in Aurora, Colorado, which has a crime problem, but the area felt safe. A neighbor was a meth addict, but the …

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Category: Daoism, Mindset, Origin Story

How To Deal With Flakes (And Keep Your Sanity)

November 23, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

I gasped, my throat emitting a sound like when you press your ear to a wall and hear water rushing through pipes. Haauuuh! It was 1:18PM. I was in my bed and my alarm clock had to be wrong. Had to be. Maybe the AM and PM were mixed up? No, the sun shone through …

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Category: Marketing, Mindset

Tree Nearly Kills Us At Dinner – Here’s Why We’re Glad

November 21, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

It only took a few moments before the rumbling began. It was Saturday, the 3rd of October. Since Wednesday, my wife and I had been in California, visiting a client. That night, we ate at a restaurant in downtown Pleasanton. Like many other small towns, they closed traffic to their main street in the evenings …

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Category: Health, Mindset

This Can Be More Important Than Body Language

November 18, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

Sounds rumbled from just outside my closed bedroom door at 1AM. Thump… thump… thump. It was spring 2015 and I’d been living in downtown Baltimore for a few months. When the riots had raged, friends asked me what the city was like. “Well, I’d sit in the living room hearing police and ambulance sirens outside …

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Category: Mindset

Enhance Your Creativity By Seeking Your Sunlight

November 17, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

“Hi. Golden Police. Get out.” I sat on a park bench in Golden, Colorado as the sun set, gnats barrel-rolled above the grass, and a cop yelled at kids rafting in Clear Creek, just beyond the “Creek Closed” sign. I was reading a book called How To Write Short. It was the perfect timing for …

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Category: Copywriting, Marketing, Mindset

The Invisible Ripple Of Lost Opportunity

November 16, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

In 2007, I sat at a table for dinner with maybe fifteen other people as we slowly revolved – slow enough to be unnoticed by some and fast enough to make others nauseous – counterclockwise to view the stale surroundings of Tampa International Airport. Our group was eating on the top floor of the airport’s …

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Category: Mindset, Origin Story

Stop Yanking On Snakes

November 13, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

I grabbed the edges of the six-foot metal basket, bent my knees, leaned forward, and adjusted my alignment as if setting up a pool shot. The basket probably weighed over 1000 pounds. Maybe close to 2000. I gave it a little push to test which way it rolled, stepped to the left six inches, bent …

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Category: Daoism, Mindset, Origin Story

Rex’s 3 Rules For Honoring Debt When You’re Screwed

November 12, 2020 by Nate Rifkin

Rex, his wife, another couple, my wife and I shared a big booth to celebrate our recent marriage. I called it a wedding aftershock party. A few days earlier, the temperature had dropped more than 50 degrees to below freezing just in time for our outdoor mountain ceremony. The day after, it had rocketed back …

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Category: Mindset, Origin Story
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