Dear Younger Self: I Apologize For My Impatience
I hugged my younger self and apologized for being so impatient with her when she: ran late made mistakes picked the wrong men burned the roast wasted time over-watered the plants under-watered the plants bought more plants leaped before looking said yes when she wanted to say no Now I know she was doing the [...]
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Who Were You Before You Thought You Had To Be Someone Else?
“Often the pain of resisting makes us rust like iron, and in order to re-enter the flow of life, we need to be scraped back to our original surface.” Mark Nepo in “The Book of Awakening” Scraped back to our original surface – our delightful, juicy, all-that-you-need-to-be surface. It’s easy to forget that the [...]
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New Beginnings. Letting Go Of The Past.
It’s 9:16 p.m. on Thursday and I haven’t written my Thursday post. I have all sorts of reasons, explanations and excuses but, bottom line, it isn’t written. I’m not being too hard on myself, but I’m also not happy with myself. Here’s what I’m proposing for myself and for any of you who are not [...]
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Stage A Protest Against Your Inner Shrew
Question for a Leader Seth Godin had a recent post entitled Seven Questions For Leaders. His second question was: What do you do with people who disagree with you… do you call them names in order to shut them down? This particular question struck me as being related to the work I do with women. [...]
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
We see the world from our perspective. The child who was attacked by a dog sees all dogs as dangerous. The child who grew up with a playful pup sees dogs as friendly. The person who is distrustful finds treachery where-ever she looks and has few friends. The person who believes the best of people, [...]
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Take These Chains From My Heart & Set Me Free | You Can Do It!
Following is an enjoyable and thought-provoking post written by Katie Goode of Be Extraordinary Today…Imagine The Possibilities. It’s a fairy tale that highlights how we allow what other people say to us, especially when we’re young, to affect our behavior. Like all good fairy tales, this one has a happy ending. We have the power [...]
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Choosing Teams In Gym Class Still Sucks Today
Bad day for me. I took Borellia for my Lyme disease last night and I feel lousy today. A ripple effect for me of feeling lousy physically is heightened emotional sensitivity. That played out for me today when I was triggered into sadness and crying by not being chosen for something I wanted. It launched [...]
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New Demographics Revamp Business-As-Usual | Female Factor
At first glance it looked as if Female Factor – The Codes That Need to Be Broken was yet another article in the continuing litany about women not speaking up for themselves nor asking for promotions and raises nearly as frequently as men do. But this article was not business-as-usual; rather it has a delightful [...]
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