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Compliments & Connections
Yesterday I stopped in the market to grab a bouquet of flowers. The woman ahead of me in the checkout line had the same idea. After I told her she had FABULOUS legs (because she did, and I feel like we women don’t compliment one another nearly enough), she asked…
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Finding Harmony, Again and Again
The desire to change something doesn’t always strike as a lightning-bolt epiphany. Sometimes it’s the low, slow burn of discontent that tells you everything’s not quite right, even if it looks great on paper. In my own life, I’ve felt it more as the longing for a different way of…
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When the Gains Outweigh the Losses
A friend of mine asked me recently whether I ever missed the hustle and bustle of my old corporate job. “Hmmmmm……… let me think…………. um……….. nope,” I replied. Funnily enough, I haven’t gotten that question in a while so I didn’t have a canned answer. But the stream of consciousness…
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Can You Forgive and Not Forget?
I fancy myself as the kind of person who can, with the right amount of consideration, forgive the hurts I’ve known. Part of that ability stems from giving the benefit of the doubt – perhaps to a fault – just as I want it extended to me. I remember that…
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Two-Minute Homework
Three questions to ask when you’re feeling stuck: 1. What are my choices here? 2. What would it take to realize the one I like best? 3. What am I afraid of? xo, b
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Talking About It – Especially When You Don’t Want To
The other day, my first grader came home from school crying. She’d had a fight with her best friend. (Apparently, the best friend has other best friends – the horror!) “I don’t want to talk about it,” she told my husband. Same response when I got home. “I don’t want…
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Take the Risk (aka, What’s the Best that Can Happen?)
Today I’ve been thinking about risk. Not the impulsive, impetuous, irresponsible kind of risk… but instead the kind that encourages us to put ourselves out there in new ways. The kind that shoves status quo aside. The kind that rewards the chances we take on ourselves with the most amazing…
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What is Perfect, Anyway?
The other day I shared this poster, with the suggestion that letting go of the myth of perfect and aiming instead for becoming ever more real is part of the journey toward getting unstuck. One of the comments pointed out a perceived contradiction in that I tell folks never to…
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“There Are Leaves on the Trees!”
The beginning of my awakening, so to speak, happened on a spring day very much like this one… although on a work day, not a Saturday. It was about 10 years ago, before kids, when my main (okay, pretty much only) focus in life was climbing the corporate ladder. I…
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