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What's the one question you'd rather not answer this week?
Every column opens with a question, because a question is the only honest way to start. Written the way Antoine talks. Not advice. Direction.
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How far are you going to ride the wrong bus before you get off?
Get off at the first stop
The return ride is always more expensive. If you realize you're on the wrong bus, you don't ride it to the end of the route and then decide.
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Whose words are you still carrying that were never meant for you?
If it don't apply, let it fly
Somebody wrote me last week. She was in a meeting, her supervisor came for the whole room, and she knew she wasn't the guilty one. She told me what got her through it.
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When somebody shows up angry, what's the first question you ask?
What happened to you?
A lot of people go straight to what's wrong with him, what's wrong with her. Back up. That's the wrong question.
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What did you get right this week that nobody clapped for?
Progress, not perfection
Recovery is real. From anything. But it can't be done on somebody else's timeline, and it won't be done perfectly. Celebrate the small wins.
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If your life is a book, who's writing the next chapter?
You are the author
Your zip code is where you're from. It's a starting point. It does not have to be your destination. And your past does not have to define you.
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