Do Your Struggles Define You?

Do Your Struggles Define You?

This thought, or should I say question, crossed my mind as I was standing in the shower this morning and I spent the whole time while I was in the shower mulling over the answer. Before you proceed, what would your answer be to this question “right now”. As a plot spoiler, you may find that your thoughts change by the end of the post. We all have struggles at times in our lives. Sometimes they’re pretty insignificant and other...

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What’s Happening at kenjaques.com?

What’s Happening at kenjaques.com?

Where’s Ken? Well the winter Olympics are starting today, and I’ve just realized that it has been over 3 months since I’ve written a blog post. A few people have asked me if I’ve stopped writing. I haven’t, it’s just that it has been a very different type of writing that I have been doing. Here’s a bit of an update as to what’s happening in my world of late. I Wrote a Book For many months I have been telling people that I...

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Let Your Freak Flag Fly | Or “Do You Stick With Social Norms”

Let Your Freak Flag Fly | Or “Do You Stick With Social Norms”

Are you comfortable enough with yourself to simply be yourself regardless of what others might think of you? I’ve done some pretty silly things in my life, yet the funny thing is that they have created lasting memories for me. The things I’m talking about probably fall a little outside of “social norms” and maybe even in the vein of “ok to think it, are you really sure you want to do it”. But I come back to the memories that they...

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Healing Health Care | Are YOU Part of the Solution?

Healing Health Care | Are YOU Part of the Solution?

I’ve been walking around for months talking about the need for changes in the health care system and that I was taking action to do everything I could to “put the care back in health care” and to “heal the health care system”. Somebody looked me in the eye and asked me how I’d do it. Even after all these months of telling my stories and urging people to shift their beliefs away from the current paradigm of how...

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