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Stories in Journal that you'll love, handpicked by our team.

Star Burst Epilogue. Top Story - February 2025.
“Here I am, once again…” They say it’s never too late to start over. But realistically, I’m unsure how many attempts I have left to rediscover my “wheel,” the big thing I’m supposed to do in this world.
By Jonathan Apollo2 years ago in Journal
It's Me, It's Me, It's C.E.D.. Top Story - January 2025.
Oh man, oh man, oh man. Where do I start? It's been a wild week for me, and it has little to nothing to do with sports; though it will be mentioned. In a span of a number of days, I went from bewildered, to panicked, to frustrated, to nearly on the point to tears, to finally receiving some relief, answers, and a solution. It was one hell of a test for me, and thankfully, I passed with flying colors.
By Clyde E. Dawkins2 years ago in Journal
Understanding Differentiation Cultivation In Experience Design. Top Story - January 2025.
When you Focus your Life on Seeing the World a Certain Way... It's hard "Not" to See Life through that Lens. Over the years I have dedicated myself to Seeing what makes Entrepreneurs, Businesses, and Leaders Stand Out, and helping them Maximize the Potential that Exists within that.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 years ago in Journal
The Genesis Of Sageship. Top Story - January 2025.
Sometimes you know exactly where you're going to go. You walk out the door, go to Point A, and Return home. Other Times? A Journey Begins that You Were Not Expecting.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 years ago in Journal
What's In A Year?. Top Story - January 2025.
What’s in a year? The calming, numbing passage of days and nights. The questions asked in brightest daylight, the questions concealed with all one’s might.
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Journal
Read when you want flowers. Top Story - December 2024.
Create your own love, Every year I collect flowers. Fresh, I stick them into the NHL Winter Classic travel mug I took from the lost and found at my last job. After they die in the stagnant water, I thread my favorite stems in a piece of chicken wire I hang in the corner of my apartment. It's the end of the year and I love all of my flowers, but they're dead. It's time to move on.
By Joe Nasta2 years ago in Journal
Business Sageship. Top Story - November 2024.
I've been reading a lot recently about Leaders (Finally) coming to a Realization that "Something" is Broken in Today's Businesses.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 years ago in Journal
Learn To Love The Grind. Top Story - September 2024.
The grind! This morning, as I picked myself up and started my morning routine, I would do anything to stay in bed. After Tuesday’s round of chemotherapy, I feel like I’ve just gone two rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime.
By Jason Morton2 years ago in Journal
Weeping Trees. Top Story - September 2024.
I look up at the turnip-coloured sun in a sort of realization. At the same time, I'm astounded by the desensitization of a civilization. It's almost like a lapse in intelligence in the collective. I'm not depressed, I don't believe in emotional lags. I prefer the temple swept with inspiration even if pouring down is a dilemma.
By Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle2 years ago in Journal
Easy Rider . Top Story - September 2024.
Two bikers transport cocaine across the American Southwest while being violently verbally and physically assaulted by small-town squares and murderous hill jacks in this quintessential "cultural touchstone" for the Hippie Generation. Directed by Dennis Hopper, it stars Hopper, Peter Fonda, and a young and handsome Jack Nicholson. Hopper plays "Billy"; Fonda is "Wyatt" or "Captain America" (he has a jacket with an American flag patch on the back that, during that era, would have been considered offensive). Nicholson is a drunken ACLU lawyer in a small-town jail. As they roar down the hot highway, headed toward New Orleans and the promise of a paradisiacal bacchanal called "Mardi Gras," we get an expansive view of the environment through which they drive their souped-up hogs. It's an amazing American landscape, as perfect as a Western landscape portrait, wherein scrubby arroyo is the unsmiling subject, its flat and desolate face punctured by huge grasping fingers of sacred stone thrusting upward to the blue murder sky. (Quoth Harrelson in Natural Born Killers, "Well, now that is poetry.")
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Journal
My 300th Story. Top Story - September 2024.
Wow...My 300th story. I cannot believe that I have been writing on Vocal for almost four years now. The amount of growth that I have gone through as a person since I first started writing on this platform is insane to me. I don't resonate with a lot of my writing anymore as I am not the same person that I was back then when I first started publishing online. I joined Vocal for the challenges, and yes I may never win one, but I am still very proud of myself for trying anyways.
By Chloe Unfiltered2 years ago in Journal
The Power Of Symbols For Leaders. Top Story - August 2024.
Yesterday I wrote about Identity and Masks in Leadership and what allows their Power to be Maximized. I had someone with whom I collaborate frequently ask a fantastic question in response to the idea that we "All" wear masks.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 years ago in Journal