#5 New Year – Here We Go Again!

from Risking Failure Hosted by Mark Dobson & Mick Dunn: Philosophers of Human Experience

It’s 2014! Happy New Year! With the new year behind us, we talk about Resolutions and how they’ve become basically something we both avoid. With so much more media pushing us to feel like we should be doing something or being something, it’s hard not to feel like you’re going to find your full potential […]

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