Tag: self-improvement
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Taking a Beat from My Obsession with Helping
Helping others is second nature, enough that I once gave away $75,000 worth of work in a year. Then a friend’s project ate my summer and my own novel went silent. Time to take a beat.
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The End-of-Winter Challenge
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. It’s the end of Winter. At least, according to the calendar. Spring is a mere month away, so I offer you a challenge. Pick one thing, maybe two, that you could do to make your life better in the next 30 days. Something…
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Words of Wisdom
Snippets I copied down from an insightful friend. A spiritual testing. A great new saga. Plan carefully, surround yourself with people who lift you, and stay neutral when you can’t control the situation.
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Working Through: Moving the Earth
Driving to work, I waffle by the hour about a new man, then ten minutes later, again. I’ve never been this indecisive. Something is shifting. Someone is going to make the earth move.
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To Find Your “Vibration,” Just Look Around
One of the basic tenets of the Law of Attraction is that we attract to us that which is similar in “vibration.” The problem is, how do you figure out what your vibration is so you can clean it up and attract something better. Actually, this is one of the easier Law of Attraction questions…
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Exploring your own Mysteries
A couple of months ago, author Christopher Penczak led me to a wonderful insight–that regardless of our spirituality, we are all seeking the deeper mysteries. This explains why many Christians are seeking more occult knowledge and many pagans are committing to new paths, some attaining clergy status in multiple traditions or experimenting with some of…
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When Self-Improvement Fails to Improve
Self-portrait exercise–looking at myself in different ways. Sometimes, people do not improve. That’s a hard thing for me to recognize because I’m an idealist, and I’d really love to think that people who embark on self-improvement–and most people at least say they’re trying to better themselves–actually make a little bit of headway. I guess the…
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The Long-Awaited, Honest-to-God Secret to Being Happy (No Kidding)
I am happy. And do you know why I’m happy? Why, for the best reason of all! None. That’s right. I’m happy for absolutely no reason at all. (I’m also not crazy, not drunk, not on drugs, and not basking in the afterglow of hot sex.) I’m simply…happy…for no reason. But you see, that’s exactly…
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Life Purpose: Why Some People Just Don’t Get it
Life purpose. Some people just don’t get it. Then again, some people want everyone else’s life purpose to match theirs. This is really rather…normal. We live our lives by a certain theme and we cannot understand why someone else isn’t as passionate about that theme as we are. If you’re a long-time fan of my…
