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You Have Power in the Pause
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” Epictetus Let me tell you something that took me way too long to learn: The most powerful moment in your day is so damn quiet, you usually miss it. It’s that tiny space between something happening and how you respond. That…
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Cooking Up Change: Why Doing It the “Same Way” Might Be Holding You Back
The Recipe I Grew Up With When I was about 12 years old my father taught me how to cook. Just the basics, but he taught me nonetheless. One of the things I learned how to make was an omelette. The recipe was simple and it was something I could do. Very quickly you take…
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Replace the B word with the F word!
Let’s Talk About the B Word You may not like it, but we are going to talk about the B word. Then just to change things up we are going to talk about the F word. We all know what the B word is, we see it every day, we hear about it everyday. For…
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You are where you Choose to be: Take Control Today
You are where you Chose to be… About 10 years ago I was talking with another dad, waiting as our daughters were rehearsing for a local play. Somehow the conversation wound up talking about that he personally believed “You are where you chose to be”. At first, I really didn’t understand what he was talking…
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“Just a…” – The Subtle Way We Limit Ourselves
Hidden Power of Your Words… I think almost everyone I know has a few phrases that, when they hear them, drive them crazy. Granted, some of these might be harmless, but more often than not, there are phrases that really get under our skin. The other day, I was talking with a friend, and she…
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Awake and Intentional
This will be my first post for 2025 and the re-awakening of my site. Originally published in Freestyle Living Magazine. https://bit.ly/FreestyleLivingMagazine_Winter2025 “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” Elkhart Tolle Winter. Our necessary pause in the cycle of life offering us the chance to evaluate and prepare for our next phase of growth. While winter…
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How Do You Look at Things?
How we perceive events and people is a direct reflection of how we “see” the world. Ever notice if you have a bad morning, the rest of your day seems bad. It could be just one tiny event but how we handle it can, and often times does, shape our entire day. More significantly, it…
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What I learned from shovelling snow…
A Wintry Perspective on Problem Solving… Being from Ohio, we are accustomed to snow. We see it every winter, whether we want to or not. It comes every year, sometimes with a warning, sometimes not. Sometimes we know how much we are getting in advance, sometimes the weather reporters miss their predictions. This is a…
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Matter of Perspective…
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Dr Wayne Dyer The parable of three bricklayers. Once there were three bricklayers. A traveler came upon the three men working. He asked each one of them what they were doing. The first man angrily answered, ‘I’m laying bricks. The…