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How to Tell Failure From Success

Posted on May 28, 2025 by mitchteemley

Failure is the first milestone on the road to success, and the second…and the third…and the fourth… The more ambitious the destination, the more milestones there’ll be. So keep going, because it only becomes the road to failure if you … Continue reading →

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How to Write Checks in 2025

Posted on January 8, 2025 by mitchteemley

We celebrate in December, and pay for it in January. These days, I pay most bills online, but still write some physical checks. And, wouldn’t you know it, at the start of each year I end up putting the wrong … Continue reading →

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I’m Not an Actor, I Just Play One on TV

Posted on December 5, 2024 by mitchteemley

Oh, all right, yes, I’m an actor. Heck, I even have a diploma to prove it. But that doesn’t automatically mean they let me act on TV, or anyplace else for that matter (you know how “they” are). Why? I … Continue reading →

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What if You Don’t “Follow Your Dreams”?

Posted on December 2, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week I’ve learned a few things in my____ years on this planet. But perhaps the most important is not to follow my dreams. Does that make me sound like a glass-is-half-empty kinda guy? In truth, I’m a … Continue reading →

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Drowning Out the Persistent “Why?”

Posted on November 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir There are a lot of distractions on the road to nowhere. People with tinnitus in their ears have to find ways to drown out the persistent whine. I had a case of metaphysical tinnitus, and was looking for ways … Continue reading →

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I Made Myself Up as I Went Along

Posted on November 19, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Mr. Friks My Real Memoir I’m a lucid dreamer. No, more than that. There’s no real barrier between my perception of reality and my dreams. Just a fine layer of mist. And when I’m tired or lost in thought, I … Continue reading →

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A Fake Life

Posted on September 24, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir It seemed everything I’d ever wanted or trained to be was just a handful of beans, and there was no beanstalk in sight. I was making a living pretending to be an electronics engineer, while the girl … Continue reading →

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Disappointed With My Life

Posted on August 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I needed a reboot. I didn’t know the term yet because it was only 1972, and I wouldn’t own a computer for another decade. But computer programmers coined the term reboot that year in reference to having … Continue reading →

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10 Terrible Pieces of Life Advice We’ve All Received or Probably Given Others

Posted on April 19, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is life coach to millennials and mid-career executives, Bachir Bastien. Born in Haiti and now living in Taiwan, Bachir earned his master’s degree in Management Science from National Chiao Tung University. He conducts workshops tied … Continue reading →

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That Time I Almost Joined the Circus

Posted on March 1, 2022 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir As kids, we knew we could become anything. It was just a matter of deciding what. And that was usually determined by which Disney movie we’d most recently seen. After my buddy Jeff and I saw Walt … Continue reading →

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