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Make Moments Matter
Have you ever looked around at your family and friends and wondered how many days you will get to share with them? I do this often — not in a negative way, but in an awe-filled way. Why do I do this? I...
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The More You Improve, the Harder It Gets
I always love a good quest. While flying Southwest Airlines recently (it’s a long story), I happened to pick up the in-flight magazine and read about a guy who’s trying to become a professional golfer....
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The Simple, Not-What-You’d-Expect, Time-Saving Hack I’ve Been Loving Lately
It happened again yesterday. All of the planned projects, plus unexpected curve-balls, were mounting as we ticked off the days toward the end of the year when our company takes a break – full stop –...
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9 Life-Saving Reasons You Shouldn’t Judge People
Is it OK to judge people? NO. One time someone wrote a lie about me. I hated this person. I judged them. Why did they lie about me? Why did they wrong me? I judged them as evil. This person pulled...
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The Importance of Naming Our Teachers
When I was 14 years old, I received my level 1 Reiki certification. Part of the tradition in Reiki is to name our teachers; I learned from my best friend’s mother, who was like my second mother growing...
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5 Q’s for a Luminous New Year in Business
Fire Starter, On Team D we think of September as the new January, so a few months ago we dove into business-related retrospection and visioning to get free & clear for 2019. Whenever you’re ready...
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Connecting Your Creative Visualization and Motivation
Some people, when they hear the word, “visualization,” think it means sitting around daydreaming. But that’s not at all what it is… Visualization is the practice of intentionally creating detailed...
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A Handmade Tale
Recently I learned to bake sourdough bread. If you have ever tried it, it is a time-intensive labor of love, taking days to create two loaves of bread. I felt immense pleasure creating something so...
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You Have to Stop Fixing What Cannot Be Fixed
It comes like a tsunami. It forces itself inside your house. With madness. You run out your front door. When the tsunami ends, your house is destroyed. Your things don’t look like your things anymore....
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Danger Ahead! 8 Dating Warning Signs You Should Not Ignore
Do you ever start seeing someone new and you get excited because they seem really great, only to realize a few dates in that they’re actually not that great after all? In fact…they’re kinda crappy?...
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Letting Go of Attachment
“Life is suffering. Attachment is the source of suffering. The end of attachment will bring the end of suffering.” Buddha I love this wisdom from Buddha because it reminds me that I am usually the...
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Struggling to Get Something Done? Set Up Outer Accountability (Especially if...
The “Four Tendencies” is a personality framework that I created that divides all of humanity into four categories — Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel — you can read an explanation and take the...
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Choose You
Whose expectations should we satisfy? Can one person really empower another? (basically, be given permission to use what Is already ours). All the happiest people I know enjoy what they do. They have...
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Cool, Calm Water – The Art of Under-Reacting
Recently I read an article which spoke about the benefits of “under-reacting” when life’s difficult situations unfold and it got me thinking. In my own life I can often observe the full spectrum of...
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5 Steps to Help Lift Your Mood
Lifting your mood – easier said than done. Often people make suggestions that can take a lot of effort, or the timing is not right. What to do? Allow me to share five mood lifting habits that worked...
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Rebounding from Rock Bottom
In life we deal with inevitable highs and lows. While we wish everything could just be okay all the time, we find out the longer that life goes on that things don’t exactly always go as we would like...
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I’m Learning to Brave the Stillness Now
“Have you thought of everything?” my mind asks as I consider the future. “Are you sure?” (Of course, I’m never as sure as it would like.) “This worries me,” it says. “You must be absolutely certain.”...
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Relax the Rules
Thomas Edison once said, “There are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.” That’s the heart, inspiration, determination and spirit of an inventor speaking. You’re an inventor . . . the...
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11 Tips for Living a Better Life
I’ve been very sad at points. I’ve been lonely. I’ve felt like I was no good at anything. I felt like I didn’t know what the rules were. For happiness. For living. How can I find out? And I felt that I...
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Naked Prayer
I’ve always prayed. To heal. To have. I pray for people I love and people I have a hard time liking. I’ve sat in prayer circles petitioning rain and for someone’s cancer to dissolve. I know dozens of...
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