Month: October 2011
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What’s YOUR Story?
“How we narrate our stories reflects and contributes to our interpersonal relationships, our experience of suffering, and our relationship to the transcendent. The ability to authentically narrate our stories is dependent on our willingness to embrace our authority; to literally “author” our story.” – Martha Beck Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, probably because…
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Surprise Grief
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” – Anatole France Even so called “good” changes mean saying goodbye to what was. When I was recruited up to New York City and…
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Follow Your Dreams
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEk7ywtmfk] And for some musical inspiration, here’s Colbie Callait (as captured by my iPhone) singing “Brighter than the Sun.” I love this song! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qff_fyyo4] These…
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Lots of Great, Free Stuff
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” – Oprah Winfrey If you’re not already aware, Oprah has started a new “Life Class” show on OWN. Even if you don’t have cable to watch the shows, you…
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Pretending to be Happy When You’re Not
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti We all do it sometimes…pretend everything’s fine, act as if…
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Dissolving Painful Thoughts
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCA0-tSD7fU] There are many tools for dissolving painful thoughts, but one of the simplest ones I learned is by Master Certified Martha Beck Coach Brooke Castillo, called Self Coaching 101. It helps me to realize my feelings are a result of my thoughts — not my circumstances. I provide a personal example in the above…
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Courage
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference…
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Time for Something to Change
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” – M. Scott Peck…