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Reclaiming And Redirecting Attention

October 7, 2020 By Jeff Turner Leave a Comment

As I stared painfully at my personal screen time data, I realized it was long past time to go further in the process of taking back control of my attention. The phone had been given too much control.

Filed Under: Behavior Tagged With: attention, focus, life

There is Always Going To Be Time

February 12, 2019 By Jeff Turner Leave a Comment

Who or what do you need to make time for today? Yourself? Someone else? Is there a call you’ve been putting off? Make the time. Just do it.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: lessons, life, time

Dinner With A Stranger

October 7, 2017 By Jeff Turner 9 Comments

An excellent dinner with my son was made better by a man we may never see again. And my son understands better today why his mother and I enjoy engaging with people we’ve never met.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: children, conversation, kindness, life, relationships, respect, stranger

The Next Right Thing

August 29, 2017 By Jeff Turner 13 Comments

“You’re fooling yourself, Jeff. You always know what the right thing to do is, you just choose not to do it. And I believe this is true for everyone. You can’t correct the past. Just do the next right thing.”

Filed Under: Behavior Tagged With: choices, ethics, life, right, wrong

Success And Failure Can’t Be Judged In The Moment

July 1, 2015 By Jeff Turner 13 Comments

Every time I allowed myself to think I had arrived, I hadn’t. Every time I called myself a failure, I wasn’t. Every moment – each high and each low – was simply a step on the path to this moment. Period.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: failure, life, success

On Consistency, Intensity, And Authenticity

April 30, 2014 By Jeff Turner 1 Comment

A little over 3 years ago I wrote a post titled, Choose Harder Things. Going to the gym had become “too easy.” I was just showing up. I would do the minimal workout that would allow me to say that I had worked out that day. I was being consistent, but I wasn’t being consistently intense. Writing felt that was to me this morning.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: consistency, life, writing

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