What is Your Gratitude Quotient?

“Mardi, you are spending too much of your time focused on “what isn’t” and way too little time & energy appreciating ‘what is’ –  you know, all that you are and all that you have.” This thought popped into my mind one night — I’d recently been thinking of writing a blog about gratitude. This…

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The Art of Listening to Myself

  What I really want to talk with you about is Self Talk. But before we can become a master of our Self Talk  we need to learn the Art of Listening. Here’s why. We have 50 – 60,0000 thoughts a day. Add to that the fact that 80% of our mind/thinking is below the conscious…

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Unexpected Gift Brings Huge Lessons

It was 1983 when I first heard myself say, “I want to be authentic.” At the time I didn’t even know what being authentic meant or what had motivated me to say these words. Now, looking back over these 35 years, it is crystal clear – my inner voice, the voice of Source, was speaking…

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Are You Ready for the Next Level?

Introducing my new book: Who’s Pulling My Strings? Companion Writing Journal: A Self-discovery Adventure & Journey to Becoming Free. I wish I’d had a map like this to guide me along the road of my journey to becoming free of being a puppet. I am so excited about this creation! It turned out far better…

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COMPARING & SHOULD-ING Part 2

When I wrote last week’s blog about Comparing and Should-ing, I knew there was a Paul Harvey. . . the rest of the story moment that is so rich it needed to be a stand alone blog. It’s all about how we relate and communicate with each other. I’m calling it the comparison syndrome. We all…

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Are You Comparing and Should-ing?

Ever find yourself feeling the agony of comparing yourself to someone else and their success and judging yourself as less than? Of course — you’re a human on planet earth. Until we start listening to our inner conversations and stop the debilitating dialogue, Comparing and Should-ing is what we do. How about a new perspective…

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Too Serious? Me Too — Let’s Stop It!

Do you  ever find you are acting way too much like a grown-up?   I guess what I really mean to say is are you feeling out of control and taking yourself seriously? This is what I put myself through this past week. I know I’m probably not the only one who goes through weeks that feel…

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Getting Back on My Diet After Falling Off

A few weeks ago I wrote about my new diet — giving up my addiction to thinking and choosing to live in the now. That was my intention then — it still is now. But a funny thing often happens – well it’s not funny it feels horrible – when you set an intention to…

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Living at Ground Innocent

It is time for us to shift to living in an even greater state of feeling innocent than before. I know you are innocent – do you? How innocent are you feeling? On a scale of 1-10 what would you say is your level of feeling and knowing you are innocent? No quick answer here…

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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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