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Reverse-engineering happiness and success

The old story of how to feel good goes like this: “If this (insert success here) happens, then I’ll be happy.” You know what that looks like — when we get the job, land the contract, get the love interest, win the lottery then we’ll be happy. Those pretty big-ticket items are fairly obvious, but […]

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Self care is also in the moments

We hear a lot about self care, and quite honestly that’s a good thing. We can’t truly be of help to another unless our own cup is full, too. There’s a difference between service and martyrdom… It’s easy to think of self care in the bigger acts. Who doesn’t love the idea of really treating […]

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Sometimes you have to just surrender to the adventure

Did you know that laundry can be an adventure? Me neither. Until those facilities here at our Winter Quarters shut down because of frozen drainage lines. Closed until spring thaw. Isn’t it interesting how something can make total sense and yet be so surreal at the same time?

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When you’re at war with yourself and you win, who loses?

Whoa. Now that’s a mind-blower for me, for sure. I first heard this as I was listening to a free series of conversations about transformations, from NLP Marin. I was unfamiliar with NLP, and since I can’t seem to stop learning stuff I checked out their website (maybe you are wondering what it is, like […]

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Scheduling surrender

Sometimes our plans for the day, our goals and our schedules, get a little sidetracked as the day unfolds. It happens. And by “sidetracked” that occasionally means “totally off of the rails.” You have likely heard that this is an opportunity to embrace the idea that when our schedule goes awry, perhaps this is where […]

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