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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Sharing My Secret Magic Wand!

We’re not talking fairytales here – but I am talking about creating magic. You can do it, too. This magic wand is a pen. It’s not just any old pen. It’s a pen with a point that feels really good when it rolls the ink onto a page – like the page of a journal. Journal?!…

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Mother Love

Are you being a good mother – to you? Most of us don’t ever think about or even consider being a mother to ourselves – just might be a good thing to remember to do. I wrote about this in “Who’s Pulling My Strings,” but like so many things, I find I often forget the…

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Stressed? Here’s the Antidote

“What’s the cause of stress?” When I heard Oprah ask Eckhart Tolle this question recently in an interview, I couldn’t wait to hear his answer. Are you curious, too? “Stress is caused by wanting something to be the way that it isn’t,” Eckhart replied. Replaying his answer several times, and listening more deeply each time…

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I have a dream . . .

This is just the right day to talk about the power of a dream. What does your mind imagine – what is your dream? Are you allowing yourself to have one? How deeply passionate are you about your dream? I’m asking you this because at times I have observed how dispassionate I’ve been about my…

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Making a turn-around

They say you teach best what you most need to learn – and I believe this is true. Well, in the last couple of days this lesson showed up so close in my face that I couldn’t help but see it. The clarity in the lesson is so obvious that I am amazed at how…

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How do you know if you are Authentic?

What a question! I had to ask myself this after reading an article on EQ (emotional intelligence), which was actually a discussion on what it means to be genuine – or as I like to call it, being authentic. It was written by Travis Bradberry,  co-founder of  TalentSmart, and co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0. It’s not…

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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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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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