Tag: Serene Living
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Pick One Thing–and Re-Define It
So here’s your assignment: pick one thing that society defines a certain way, however small, and re-define it for yourself. For me, it’s…house dresses, for lack of a better word. Here you see me having a “blessed laundry day” at my house. What’s different? A lot of things. But it started with a change in…
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What We All Really Want
But she won’t understand Why anyone would have to try To walk a line when they could fly. From the Bookshelf Rite of Awakening — Southern Gothic with bite, Book One of the Rites of Passage. Available direct from the author → –”If She Knew What She Wants,” The Bangles Once, when I was going…
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The Joys of Thinking Differently
One of the reasons I feel so happy these days is that I’m fulfilling my life purpose, particularly the part about celebrating being different. I have always thought “differently,” which has the propensity to get one humored at best and ridiculed or cast out at worst. It’s hard growing up in a world that tells…
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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…
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How to Make It Better
By the end of the first hour at the office, I was feeling overwhelmed and didn’t like it very much. Not that anything was particularly any weightier than usual. It was just the annoying little time and energy consumers that plague most work days and add unnecessary stress. Most of them are chores that have…
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Why I’m Not Looking for My “Other Half”
It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still teasing my colleague about why,…
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7 Tips to Stop Getting Advice You Don’t Want
A few years back, imperfect strangers would stop me in the grocery store and give me advice. On everything. My looks, my clothes, my love life, my purchases. Everything. If one more person had told me what I should do with my life, I would have exploded. I was caught up in the adversity of…
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The Bracelet Challenge
Some of my favorite bracelets. It’s not that I aspire to be Xena, Warrior Priestess, with my armbands and steel brassiere. (Okay, maybe I do, but that’s beside the point.) It’s a challenge I’m taking. Some people refer to it as the “Bracelet Challenge,” but I’m not using it in quite the same way as…
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The Best Happiness Advice a Teen Ever Gave Her Mom
Since my divorce three years ago, my older daughter has come up with some real gems. Forget all the self-help gurus in the world–my teenager’s guidelines for joyful living boil down to these three. 1. Never take advice from unhappy people. That might seem simple, but how often do we really think about it? I’ve…
