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The Essence of Hope
Hope. I hope this finds you doing well. I hope so. I hope to. . . There is something that hangs in the air when we use this word hope. It...
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5 Focal Points to Priceless Peace
In the Christmas season, there is much talk about peace — messages like: Peace on Earth; World Peace; May Your Year be Filled with Peace...
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You Can't Just Do It!
I’m caught in a cycle. Every morning I tell myself I’m going to accomplish THE THING. You know the one, the thing that I’ve been pushing...
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18 No Cost Self-Care Items
Last night, I met a three week old baby. Baby’s are so sweet and cuddly. As I was driving home it struck me all over again how utterly...
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4 New Habits for Positive Self-Talk
50,000 times a day we talk to ourselves, according to researchers. Sadly, 80% of it is negative — I shouldn’t have said that . . . She...
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3 Secrets for Uncertain Times
On my 50 birthday I awoke jobless, homeless, alone for the first time in 30 years and able to say "I'm better than I should be." I was...
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Waiting on Affirmation? Take These Steps
"Please stop. That’s too much. I really can’t handle any more affirmation. Those powerful, positive statements you are making about me...
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Belva Lockwood - Be Bold
A passionate crowd of well-wishers gathered outside a farmhouse in Maryland in September 1884. They had come to approve the nomination of...
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3 Shifts to Wait Well
I crawled into Downtown Fort Worth at peak rush hour this morning. With this crawl, came two options: dread or hope. With the push of a...
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The Practice of Silence
Many decades ago I planned my day out — every 15 minutes. I was ecstatic about the fact that I knew what I would be doing every minute of...
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Helen Keller's Two Prized Possessions
A woman born in 1880 becoming a world-famous speaker and author, traveling to over 40 countries, being awarded the Presidential Medal of...
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Own Your Story
We are all writing our own story — living our autobiographies. An author writing a novel starts with a rough idea, progresses to an...
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3 Decisions you Must Make
“I have participated in every bad decision I’ve ever made. I’ve talked myself out of exercising and into dessert. I’ve been present at...
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3 Things to Eliminate to Be Heard
Want to get smaller? Maybe around the waist but not necessarily in the conference room, a vital conversation, or your next presentation....
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Feel Defeated by Change?
Junior High seemed daunting, too much, too different, too foreign. I didn’t want to go. I drilled my sister, a year ahead of me in...
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It's Redirection, Not a Catastrophe
What if failure is not really failure at all, but redirection? When you walk through the parking lot and trip on the way to your car, do...
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3 Steps to Becoming
When we find ourselves stuck and wondering what we need to do with our lives, careers, businesses, ideas, we might be asking the wrong...
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You are Not Like Her
The day the counselor suggested I was carrying around some shame, I protested, “That’s not even possible. I grew up in a healthy, solid,...
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Hurry, Hurry, Hurry Get More Points
The big lie: You have to have more points. This is the message we are always hearing, you need more — more money, more help, more time....
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