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I’m CJ. I write about discipline, endurance, grief, and becoming who you are through repetition, not perfection.
Category: 30 Day Challenge
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My grocery list has acquired the same growth mindset I have, over the years. The cart was once overflowing with frozen dinners, Oreos, cereal, and processed meats. Now it fills with things that entice the mind, body, and spirit. Here’s a glimpse into my kitchen. Greek yogurt—Chobani or Oikos, to be exact.Chobani for creative desires…
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m learning that success often looks like authenticity, even when it costs approval.
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Today’s blog challenge is to publish a poll or survey. I don’t have a loud audience yet — most days, it feels like I’m writing into a quiet room. Still, I’m learning that growth doesn’t start with answers. It starts with asking. So if you’re here, this is me inviting you in. Thank you for…
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Letting go of the need to explain isn’t isolation, it’s discernment. What truly matters doesn’t demand justification. What’s understood authentically speaks for itself. 1. My reactions to people’s wordsPeople will perceive me however they want. It’s not my job to teach someone how to see me. 2. My gym routineIt took me years to commit…
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Reinvention is the action or process through which something is changed so much that it appears entirely new. People hear that definition and imagine fireworks, a dramatic before and after, a fresh start wrapped in momentum. But reinvention, in reality, is much quieter than that. When most people say they want to reinvent themselves, I…
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Today’s blog challenge was to write a post based on an interview I’ve taken before — so I’m sharing one that left a huge impression on me. It’s a story about grit, unexpected opportunity, deep friendship, and what it truly means to become part of the 1% who can say the words: I am an…
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If this week had a theme, it would be clarity—not loud, not dramatic, but gentle clarity. The kind that sneaks up on you in moments you never expect to matter. Here is a memory that shaped my understanding of where I am right now. This week brought with it a surprising amount of positive reflection.…
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Key Song: Lose Yourself — Eminem I’m pretty hard to win over.I’m a stick-to-what-I-like kind of person, and it takes a lot for something to sway me. So when something actually sticks with me, it sticks. Over the last day or so, I’ve started putting together a list of things that have truly helped me…
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Signing up for my first Ironman 70.3 was a small step in a direction I had not quite registered yet. It felt vast and almost ungraspable at first, like I had agreed to something far bigger than the page on my screen. But slowly, through research, trial, and a lot of error, I built a…
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There’s something prominent about the silence of the morning. Hardly a noise in any direction. Lights are dimmed, humans are nonexistent, and for once the world isn’t as needy. The morning carries an urgency for optimism in its truest form. With coffee brewing in the distance and the sun beginning to peek through the clouds,…
