Category: Change
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A Life of Mistakes
Many people try to predict the Kentucky Derby winner, and before the first Saturday in May, there are a lot of different theories as to why one particular horse will be this year’s winner. The sport commentator’s analysis of Mohaymen, a horse who only career loss in the Florida Derby last month, caught my attention. His…
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Make Time for What Is Important to YOU!
“Make Time for What Is Important to YOU!” was the title of a women’s group presentation last week, and like so many, the women felt the stress of having so much on their plate that is seemed impossible to get the important things done. The to do list gets longer rather than shorter and easy to…
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Tips & tricks for keeping resolutions alive
It’s great to hear success stories of my clients and friends keeping their New Year’s resolutions and getting results. Posts on Facebook of pounds lost, miles logged in preparation for a mini-marathon or conversation around a new daily habit of saving money all bring me satisfaction. Possibilities imagined, and realities experienced! But it seems more…
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Habits: Holding you back or moving you forward?
Maybe it’s the sub-zero temperatures, but my recent hibernation has had some benefits, including a TV binge – 3 seasons of Homeland in 7 days (Is Brody really dead, or was it a ploy by Javadi to make us think he is dead?) and also a reading frenzy including Wild – a pretty amazing story of Cheryl…
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Making Room
I didn’t know what a “clothing swap” party was, much less, what to bring or what I would find that evening. The idea behind the swap was in purging what you no longer wore or wanted from your closet, you could trade those items with someone else and both be better off than you were…
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A Blank Slate
A blank slate… what comes to mind? Do you think of emptiness or perhaps a lot of work, or does a blank slate energize you with opportunity and creativity? We often associate a blank slate with starting over, so perhaps your initial thoughts may be based on whether or not you want a fresh start,…
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There’s a Hole in my Sidewalk
This is one of my favorite poems right now, “There’s a Hole in my Sidewalk“ by Portia Nelson Chapter 1. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter…
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You Can’t Predict a Breakthrough
Remember the pogo stick? Other than riding a bike without training wheels, it was one of the first activities I remember having to really practice over and over again before I got it. To get just a couple of jumps on this one-legged device before falling off was tough in the beginning! Once a couple…