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{1} thing every day

21-Days

We have all heard it takes 21-days to form new habits. So-o, let’s celebrate the middle of summer and determine to adopt a new habit by July 31st! I know some of you committed to do work on your artistic goals this summer. How is that going? {Remember: Baby steps count! ♥ } Worry never accomplishes [...]

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Getting Social {personalities}

Sometimes clarity comes in the midst of seeing who you are not. For example, meetin’ and greetin’ people during a networking event. Mingle, mingle, mingle. Reciting {and refining} our introductions and public personas as we move through huddles of people. While most of us can recite what we do {have done and aspire to do [...]

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Time in a Bottle

There never seems to be enough time / To do the things you want to do / Once you find them ~Jim Croce Overwhelm is the default mode when we create our own rut by {being busy}. Day in. Day out. We busy ourselves with the urgent and mundane — all the while convincing ourselves [...]

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Give yourself room to move

There are opportune moments in life when you find yourself barely able to move in the midst of you own expectations. You stare at the closed door to your {windowless room of} Routines and Busyness — and the walk-in closet {harboring the opinions of others} as it overflows into this room. A room packed full [...]

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Working from a blueprint

There is a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want; that you have thought everything through. Then, you put it into brick and mortar. Each day, you go to the construction shed and [...]

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Things that scare me

Long country drives clear my head of the white noise of negative thought. The visual escape and wide open spaces allow me to exhale, to sort through and arrange {edit and erase} the phrases of my inner critic and the words of other people. During one such drive, I spotted this pirate flag flapping wildly [...]

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One thing. Every day.

For the past two weeks I have felt like I was the person in this image. Scaling a rugged stone wall in order to jump into the refreshing deep blue sea. Repeating the climb — going higher with each return climb. I happened upon this Flickr photo stream tonight and it presented me with a [...]

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Right Brain Business Journal

A common thread woven in the discussions with my accountability groups have this common thread: How do we declutter our schedules and yet maintain the aspects of our days that we enjoy? Read: Avoid throwin’ the baby out with the bathwater — [idiom explained]. A colleague of mine and I been brainstorming answers to this [...]