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Take Out The Trash
How many times have you heard that you need to get people out of your life that suck? Look around...They still there? Statements are only...
Mark Craven
Dec 11, 20233 min read
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The Storm
Sometimes life kicks the dog shit out of you... but there's still hope Life can be brutal. It can really rip you in half and just keep...
Mark Craven
Dec 4, 20232 min read
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A Simple Powerful Truth
Were you ever just hit with a really simple truth? “You’re here for a reason” That sounds so cliché I almost can’t stand it. But for some...
Mark Craven
Apr 29, 20232 min read
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Find Yourself Again
Somewhere along the way you got lost To reconnect with yourself means to remember who you are. Remember what you like. You did like...
Mark Craven
May 4, 20222 min read
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Showing Up for Yourself
You can do very little for other people, if you haven't done enough for you It's a bit too easy to get caught up with the waves of life...
Mark Craven
Apr 25, 20223 min read
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Find Your Gift
Photo by Scott Evans on Unsplash Why should you spend any time looking for and working on your strengths and gifts? What's the payoff?...
Mark Craven
Aug 8, 20212 min read
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Redirection
You start on some paths with absolute certainty that this is where you’re supposed to be. But then you hit a few bumps, and your...
Mark Craven
Apr 12, 20212 min read
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3 Things You Don't Need To Be A Good Dad
I was always of the mindset that if I had a kid, all of my dreams would die. That’s a pretty bright outlook on fatherhood isn’t it? I...
Mark Craven
Jan 6, 20213 min read
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35
This isn't what I thought 35 would look like. I didn't realize that becoming a dad would be so important to me. I didn't realize I had it...
Mark Craven
Nov 2, 20201 min read
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Kai is my proof that magic exists. Becoming a dad was something that I always feared. I feared it for a number of reasons. One being that...
Mark Craven
Sep 26, 20201 min read
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In-Ground Pool
Today my cousin Vicky called me at 7am. She knew I’d be awake and I was. She told me that Lefty had passed away. Well she said that “pap”...
Mark Craven
May 22, 20202 min read
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There’s Nothing More Important Than Family
My younger cousin is graduating from college. Penn State University Class of 2020 School of Engineering. I’m so proud of this dude I...
Mark Craven
May 3, 20202 min read
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Quarantine
I hate this so much. There isn’t one part of me that that finds anything appealing about where we are right now. Shut in from friends and...
Mark Craven
Apr 25, 20202 min read
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I Don’t Ever Give Up
Does that resonate with you? It didn’t matter how much had come against you in previous pursuits, you just kept getting up and doing what...
Mark Craven
Apr 18, 20202 min read
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In The Same Year
So much can happen in just a year. It was within this last year that, first I went bankrupt and then I got hired in the highest paying...
Mark Craven
Apr 10, 20202 min read
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We Have To Hope
The last thing I’m feeling right now is hopeful. What I’m mostly feeling right now is what most of us are probably feeling right now…...
Mark Craven
Mar 20, 20202 min read
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How to Handle the Intangible
What if I handed you a strange looking object that you really weren’t sure about? You didn’t know what it was, what it did, what it could...
Mark Craven
Mar 9, 20202 min read
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The Dad I Didn't Have
I’m going to be a dad. And I’m going to be a dad to a boy. Erin and I found out that we were going to have a baby back in December. When...
Mark Craven
Mar 7, 20203 min read
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Why Not You?
Don’t answer that! It’s a stupidly easy question to answer. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources. I don’t have the talent....
Mark Craven
Feb 22, 20201 min read
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Maintaining Mediocrity
A good friend at my recent book signing looked down at the five books I had on display at the signing table and asked, “How the hell do...
Mark Craven
Feb 13, 20202 min read
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