One Guy's Truth
One night, as I walked out of my house to attend a meeting, I noticed a person coming down the sidewalk towards me. Instinctively, I looked up and added a perfunctory, “how ya doing?” What I quickly realized was this person was not doing well at all. Extremely thin, with a distant stare, walking at […]
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Yesterday, I woke up in a bad mood. Edgy, cranky, sad, and a bit irritable. The reason? I had been dwelling on what to do with the rest of my life. Questions like, “what’s my purpose,” “where am I going,” “how can I best help,” were peppering my consciousness and pulling me out of the […]
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You can change. I know you can change, because I recently changed something about myself that has been haunting me for years. For as long as I can remember, there has been a Hulk lurking within me. This big, green, angry, Hulk, is the side of me who is ready to pulverize anyone or anything […]
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My daily meditation practice consists of around 45 minutes in the morning, before my kids wake up (and all hell breaks loose) and 45 minutes in the evening, before I go to sleep for the night. It’s as basic of a practice as one can find – I sit on a plastic foldout chair in […]
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This love story takes place at the Bhavana Society in High View, West Virginia. Bhavana is a Buddhist forest monastery in the Theravada tradition. While it’s an incredible place, listed as one of the most sacred locales by National Geographic, I found love here in a slightly circuitous route. And yes, one of the most […]
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As a coach, you might think I wouldn’t need a coach myself. You’d be wrong. I’m human and as a result I have; insecurities, challenges, issues, problems, dreams, and goals. Just because I know about emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and purposeful living, doesn’t mean I’m immune to the self-limiting voices that patrol my mind. Shoot – […]
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In my early 20’s, I was frustrated with life. While I had good jobs, I felt my life lacked meaning and purpose. If I could ask my 23-year-old self, “what’s your purpose homey?” 23-year-old Dan would probably answer, “uhhhhhh, getting drunk ON purpose?” My days consisted of me waking up, going to work from 8am […]
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“Don’t be reactive!” “Be grateful!” “Don’t operate from a place of fear!” Other than the grim corona-related news, our media and social feeds seem to be filled with lots of people telling us how to “be” during this clusterf*ck state of affairs. I’m guilty of this as I recently published Keeping Your Mind Virus Free, […]
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A couple of years ago, I had a pretty nasty fall off my mountain bike. After hitting a rock, I was thrown from my bike and found myself rolling down a cliff that led to a creek some 200 feet below. Sliding for about 20 feet, I was able to grab onto some roots that […]
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By conventional standards, 2019 was an enormous failure. At the beginning of the year, I laid out all of my goals in precise detail. I had a list of 18, which you can read about here. Looking back, I only completed 4 of those goals: Establish a coaching business Achieve a certificate from Georgetown in […]
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My name is Dan D’Agostino. On my birth certificate, it says Daniel in place of Dan. For most of elementary school, I signed my name as Danny on book reports and other assignments. In 4th grade, I decided I had matured sufficiently to begin signing my name as, “Dan the Man.” While I wish “the […]
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