HeyJaredA Dash of Positivity
My writing is focused on the power of positivity. There is too much fear in this world. I'd like to bring a bit of happiness where I can.
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Old Enough to Hold the Line (opens the original)
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I was twenty years old the day I landed in Iraq via a loaded Black Hawk. Think about that for a second. Twenty years old. Not even old enough to buy alcohol. Couldn’t even rent a car on my own. But apparently old enough to be handed a weapon and a post and told to hold the line. That is where I learned the most about life.I thought I knew what the “real world” would be like after I left home at fifteen. I was wrong. The day I landed at Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq, became one of those moments I
Reframing Comparison Culture (opens the original)
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Open any social feed and within thirty seconds you’ll see it: someone’s promotion announcement, someone’s new house, someone’s “humbled to share” post about a milestone you haven’t hit yet. It takes less than a minute for comparison to creep in and once it does, it rarely leaves quietly.Comparison isn’t new. What’s new is the volume and precision of it. You used to compare yourself to the handful of people in your actual life (or your top 8 in MySpace) Now you’re comparing yourself to a curated
Reframing Setbacks as Data, Not Verdicts (opens the original)
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There’s a moment right after something goes wrong; a project falls apart, a plan misses the mark, a goal slips out of reach, where your brain rushes to hand you a verdict. You failed. You’re not cut out for this. This confirms what you were afraid of.That verdict feels like truth. It isn’t. It’s just the fastest story your mind could write, and fast stories are rarely accurate ones.The problem with verdictsA verdict closes the case. It says: this is who you are, and the trial is over. Once you a
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