Living My Priorities

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A few months ago I was asked to list my priorities. I quickly rattled off my kids and my husband. I paused for a moment and then listed my friends, and extended family. I was asked to continue, so I stumbled along and listed my work, my blog, my extended community – both virtual and [...]

Right Now is All We Have

Blackberry-Picking

Right now is all we have. The past is done. The future not yet begun. The present is our gift. We need to live it. To love it. With passion. With fire. As fiercely as we can. There will never be another now. Right now is all we have.

Be Bold. Be Yourself.

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If you were given a billboard on the side of a busy highway, and told to write something that would communicate an important message to all of the passersby, what would it be? I was asked this at my last life coaching session, and without a moment’s hesitation, I said: Be Bold. Be Yourself. “What [...]

Seeking Happy: Part 3

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This picture has nothing to do with anything, except to show that yes, we have yet another picture of kids holding sticks…or dry grass in the case of my daughter, but she seemed to think that the dry grass was actually a pile of really tiny sticks, and I didn’t feel like correcting her at [...]

Seeking Happy: Part Two

As far as I know, my two and four year old didn’t read my blog post last week – the post where I admited that I am not happy – but they may as well have. Last week was step one of my Seeking Happy journey. Step one was sleep, eight hours of sleep each [...]