“Be stubborn about your goals and flexible about your methods.” Throughout the past two months of my life, this quote has been my mantra. Though hard at times to believe and follow, I know that I have to […]
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I thought I was going to die. Or that I was going to faint and collapse, at least. It was a slightly chilly morning in early spring, and I was staring at the ground in front of me,
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No doubt, I had bitten off way more than I could chew. While I generally enjoy juggling many plates, I knew a few months ago that I had stepped over that invisible boundary of “busy” into “overwhelmed.” That’s
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill I’ve heard that quote by Winston Churchill about a thousand times. I don’t know whether that’s just by coincidence or whether there’s some sort of higher being out
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“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.” – C.S. Lewis Almost everyone today has someone, or knows of someone, going through the experience of cancer or a life
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“Even your worst times have value and can become, in retrospect, your best times.”– Andy Andrews, The Noticer I remember a year ago, the pounding, the darkness, the pain that I was feeling. I felt like I was
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“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”- Graham Parke in “No Hope for Gomez!” If you have kids or ever observed them, you’ll notice they have breakdowns
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“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay When I was younger, in my early twenties I wasn’t always my own best friend.
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint it. – Edward Hopper We tell small children to use their words. We want to teach them to express negative feelings verbally rather than
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As a project manager by trade, I always advocate drafting out a good plan to reach new goals. Setting objectives, analyzing scenarios, and executing tasks will make it easier for you to get to that final destination. When
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I walked around the house again. This would be the last time.
There was the siding that needed to be repaired near the back door. I remember when our dog was a puppy and decided, for some reason, to chew on it.
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