Where are the Answers?

It might be fun this week to talk about something we can go for instead of something to give up and go away from. Maybe here we would also find the secret to getting the best answers to our questions. For several weeks I’ve been writing about ending the addiction to thinking.  And yet, we…

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What are you expecting?

If you’ve been reading my recent blogs  you know I’ve been obsessed with giving up my addiction to thinking. Easier said than done. Take a look at some facts I read online this week about our thoughts: The average person has about 50,000 thoughts a day. This translates into 35 thoughts a minute – 18…

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How Do I Know What Love Is?

Since it’s Valentine’s Day this Wednesday, it must be the ideal time to muse on the subject of love. So let me ask you – what would you tell me if I asked for your definition of love? Everyone’s going to say something a little different because the meanings are based on our perceptions of…

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What’s the name of your favorite pet?

We’ve all had at least one favorite pet that we just love to talk about when someone asks us this question. We answer fondly with its name, and love to tell stories and share the memories of our pet that seem always to be fresh in our mind. For most of us it is probably…

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I’m Starting a New Diet!

Do you ever feel like the picture above is how your mind looks? Me too. Lately, I’ve been paying attention to what’s going on in my mind, and I’m finding there is a lot of thinking going on – and I don’t mean necessarily negative thinking – there are a lot of positive thoughts in…

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It’s About You — Not Me

My head is still spinning from something I learned this week. This is huge, so of course I have to share it with you. Besides, I know this is a behavior we all have in varying degrees. For years I have been doing something that I thought gave me mastery at building rapport with people.…

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Needing a lot more of this!

KINDNESS. Good word, but why is this the word that was offered to me for this week’s blog? I went to the Thesaurus to see the words that are offered as synonyms for KINDNESS,  and then I checked out the antonyms: Animosity        Hatred        Hostility        Indecency        Intolerance        Cruelty Ah, now I get it — aren’t these…

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Creating a New Year

This year is going to be different. This year I’m really going to make things happen and get what I want. Have you ever heard yourself say these words only to see more fizzle than sizzle in that year? I sure have. I have also started many a year not really sure what I wanted,…

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Lights — the Gift of the Season

What’s the first word that comes to your mind when you think of Christmas? I asked myself this question as I was trying to come up with something meaningful to blog about on Christmas Eve – curious to hear what I would say. Well, of course there wasn’t just one word – there’s parties and…

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Weapons of Mass Destruction — or Creation?

  Don’t you just hate it when you’re sailing along feeling like you are quite healed and enlightened when an event or words suddenly occur and you find yourself in extreme reaction? It feels like a Weapon of Mass Destruction has descended on your calm and peaceful existence. Well, that’s how I felt recently when…

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