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Happy Monday! I hope your week is off to a great start. I am supposed to be getting my laptop fixed. Best case scenario I'll be back within a week. Worst case scenario I'll see you in 2026. If it takes a while for me to get my laptop back, which it may, then i'll be sure to keep you all updated. The main thing that is going to be impacted is content. I will do my best to publish new content for as long as I can between now and when i get my laptop back. This is a great segue...

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Vlogmas 2025!

Partially because I knew I had to get my laptop fixed, Life with Ken is doing Vlogmas this year! Vlogmas is when you vlog for the 25 days leading up to Christmas. Today is day 8 and that video will be coming sometime after this Newsletter. The goal of this is to see if we can grow our YouTube page! Click the thumbnail above or use the button below to watch the series and follow our YouTube page!

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Ken's Corner

I want to take a moment to talk about trauma. I feel like trauma was this thing people talked about a lot more years ago. I guess now it feels like a played out concept. So much of what you go through, however, can impact you in such a way where it can be difficult to release some things. And now I'm at a place in my life where I am trying to hold on to stuff; not out of desperation but after a while, you let go of or lose everything or pretty much everything and you realize everything included people and places and things that now are different if they still exist at all. I want to be more appreciative. That's been a big takeaway over the last week. I try to be grateful or thankful for what I have and I try to demonstrate that gratitude. I also constantly pray for humility and to remain humble. But I'm now realizing that I didn't alway appreciate what I had or what was really required to maintain it.

You steward or manage for others but also for yourself. As a manager you benefit when what you are managing is benefiting from your management. It can be a symbiotic relationship. In hindsight I don't think I did well arbitrating that symbiosis in certain respects as well as I maybe could have. Regardless, with respect to trauma I'm thinking about it because again, sometimes in life all you can do is pick up the pieces trauma leaves you with. How can you live a better life but you're always looking over your shoulder because of something that happened 10 years ago? Of if you base your understanding of better around a traumatic event. Are we doomed to perpetuate hurt? Something traumatizing happens to me, for example. Then I try not to do that thing to someone else. Am I subjected to the pain of trauma because I am always in consideration or vigilant of it?

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