Evaluate, let go, and live better.
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Why Creativity and Imagination in a Crazy-Busy, Suck-the-Life-Out of Us-World
“I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein As a brilliant physicist, Albert Einstein was also a master creator. Why? Because he knew before anything becomes physical matter, it must first be imagined. He also knew…
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Reframing Your Painful Memories During the Holiday Season
Last week, I backed out of my garage wearing my black mask, heavy winter coat, and bright red mittens to grab some last-minute gifts for Christmas on this Covid-19 year. I celebrate without the religious fuss. Inside the store, as I tried to social-distance while perusing the aisles full of holiday hoopla, I remembered past…
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Success Does Not Always Mean You Need to Climb That Mountain, or Does It?
It is quite an accomplishment to hike to the top of a mountain, is it not? But, is it success? For some of us, to be successful means to attain a high position, a certain status, or make a lot of money. For others, success might mean raising a large family, traveling around the world,…
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Four Ways to Handle This COVID Thing Without Losing Your Mind
Do you feel like you’ve lost control of your life or wonder why you have a hard time getting out of bed in the mornings, lately? Or, do you feel like you are going to lose your mind during this COVID-19 pandemic? I sure have! I was not, at all, expecting this worldwide illness, and…
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Forget Your New Year’s Resolutions: Do This Instead
The new year is here (or almost here depending on where you are in the world), and you are feeling apathetic about creating goals for 2020. Or, you are sick of people asking what your goals are. Or worse, you are tired of setting up goals for the coming year and failing to achieve them…
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Heed the Big, Blue House: There is More Beneath the Surface That None of Us See
Do you ever wonder what is behind the front doors of the houses you see in your neighborhood? Do you ever wish you could take a peek? Do you ask yourself, “Who lives there? What is their story?” I do. Many times. I live near a serene walking path that I often frequent. There, I…
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3 Simple Ways to Set Your Heart on Fire and Why it Matters
Who doesn’t love a coffee shop? I love what I see and find in coffee shops: people talking, reading, writing, sharing, laughing, creating, enjoying, loafing around, and daydreaming. We need more of this in this very troubled world, don’t we? Yesterday, in one of my favorite hometown coffee shops, I experienced three things that touched…
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4 ways to Live Authentically, Embrace Life’s Changes, and Thrive
I am thankful that I live near a beautiful and serene walking path in my part of the world. I have walked this path many times, but today, a windy and cloudy day, I realized something. Very recently, there used to be a wooded area around a bend with a bridge that I found serene.…
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Nature Makes No Excuses: It Is and Like Nature, We Are
Nature. It is what it is. I have to apologize if you think this blog is about the physical or biological building blocks of our natural world. It is not. It is, however, about what we can learn from nature. As scientific and rational human beings in the twenty-first century, there is a lot we…
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