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True North: The Quiet Correction That Changes Everything

By on January 31, 2026

By Larry G. Patten
TTL Today – Reflect. Think. Live.

Most people don’t realize this: there are two Norths.

One is magnetic. The other is true.

Magnetic North is where your compass points—shaped by the shifting flow of Earth’s molten core. It’s not fixed. It drifts slowly over time. Right now, it’s moving toward Siberia.

True North is different. It never changes. It’s the precise point where the Earth’s axis emerges through the northernmost tip of the globe—the place where all lines of longitude converge. It is constant. Reliable. Anchored.

That difference matters.

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Survival in the 21st Century

By on January 31, 2026

 

 Back in the 1980s, I was asked to write a paper for a telecommunications organization’s executive retreat. The purpose was simple on the surface but enormous in scope: help a room full of leaders understand what the emerging world of computers and telecommunications was about to do to the future.

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Stand and Accept

By on January 31, 2026

There is a moment in every life when the noise gets so loud that you feel like you’re being pushed from the inside out.

Too many inputs. Too many opinions. Too many reminders of what you should be doing, what you should be thinking, what you should be afraid of, and what you should be outraged about. The world does not just offer information anymore. It leans on you to respond, to pick a side, to react quickly, to prove you belong.

And if you are not careful, you can spend years living as if you are always one step behind, always trying to catch up to the latest demand.

That is where this simple phrase comes in: stand and accept.

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Think Time

By on January 31, 2026

Two Breaths, Two Steps Back

One of the strangest things about modern life is how fast we’re expected to react.

Not just to news, but to everything.

A text comes in. A post shows up. Somebody says something that hits a nerve. And before we’ve even fully understood what we’re seeing, there’s pressure to respond. Right now. With certainty. With emotion. With a hot take.

That’s not how human beings were built to handle conflict.

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Life Happens

By on January 31, 2026

Life is going to happen. That part isn’t optional.

What matters more is what happens inside you when life hits—what you choose, what you protect, what you refuse to become, and what you decide to build from the wreckage.

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