What would simplifying your wonderful life feel like? Look like? Do you crave having less to contend with? Before you know it, Christmas will be here again! What a wonderful time of year! The festively decorated house, stockings, yummy cinnamon rolls and egg casserole all ready for Christmas morning – at least that’s how we…
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Deep down you know that practicing self-care makes sense. At the same time, investing in yourself often feels like more of an indulgence than a necessity, especially in a world that glorifies hustle, productivity, and a crammed schedule. Add that to the whispers of your Fear Monster telling you that “You don’t have time for…
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Being balanced personally and professionally requires effort! Unless you’ve fallen recently, you probably don’t give much thought to your balance. Did you know that somewhere between forty and fifty years of age your balance begins to decline? Even more alarming, after your turn sixty-five, your chances of falling increase. In fact, falls are the leading…
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Patience is something we appreciate and admire in others. Cultivating patience in our own lives – that feels arduous! A few years back, before our cable provider offered an incentive for us to look elsewhere for a streaming service, my husband and I encountered a technical glitch that really tried our patience. What made this…
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Storms vary in their level of intensity. Some bring welcome rain and pass quickly while other storms are incredibly strong, like hurricanes, and leave behind significant devastation. Carrying on with normal life in the midst of a hurricane is nearly impossible! That’s how strong the gusts of wind, deluge of rain, damaging hail, lightening, thunder,…
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Strengths and weaknesses – every personality has them! It’s not uncommon for people to believe that there are some good personalities and there are some not so good ones. That’s simply not true! It’s really about whether or not you are living out of your strengths or your weaknesses. Maybe you have no idea what…
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Prioritizing is the key to reaching your goals, getting desired results, being more productive, and enjoying better relationships, and that’s just the beginning! The problem is you are probably juggling a lot, not to mention all that’s vying for your attention! We don’t naturally prioritize! Thinking Back… To summers when I was a kid, I…
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Making positive changes is a part of every season of life! Right now, it is blistering hot in my neck of the woods! That’s how summers are in the south – hot and humid, but all too soon those bone-chilling temps will be here again! Brrr! For snow to form, the conditions have to be…
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You want your people to perform at their very best, but there are a variety of ways that leaders undermine their people. That leaves them under-performing, and I know you don’t want to do that. I adore the colorful blooms that show up in my yard in the spring and summer. It’s a time of…
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Being diligent versus striving – do you know the difference? If you aren’t a game show enthusiast, you may not know about the show, “The $64,000 Question.” Believe it or not, even before there were TV game shows, there were game shows that aired on the radio. “The $64,000 Question” was one of those shows…
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