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Altered expectations

This Labor Day weekend has turned into Garage Sale weekend for me. And it has provided some truly unexpected highlights. The somewhat expected was selling *some* items. I knew it wouldn’t all sell,...

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Ah, that pesky motivation

Such a fleeting thing, this motivation. And yet, so very very critical. The graphic above is so fabulously scientific with those big big words that may or may not make sense in your daily life....

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It is what it is – don’t look here for motivation!

Over the past month the top search term drawing random strangers to this site is “Motivation”. Pardon me for a moment while I react to the idea that I can provide advice on this topic: OK, OK….so...

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Dear Daylight Savings Time

What the heck did I ever do to you? How can one little hour have so much impact? Por ejemplo – last Sunday I joined my running buddies for a 90 min trail run at San Elijo Lagoon. We had to get started...

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Motivating the motivator

I’ve written a couple of posts about finding motivation for my teenager. I’ll update on that particular task shortly, but in the course of writing most recently about finding my focus again, I...

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Push Presents and our Madison Avenue driven culture of expectation (re-post)

Listening to a morning radio show on the way to work I heard a completely new term. “Push Present” Now, I know I fall out of the range of your typical female target audience. The things that I watch...

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Warning! This is your brain on Zyrtec!

Well, MY brain anyway …. The ol’ barometric pressure took a nose dive last night and right on cue my sinuses filled with pressure.  Consequently I’ve been either excessively foggy headed and tired from...

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5 minutes of gratitude

On Happify today there was a task that at first I grumbled about a bit in my head. Set a timer, then just do some stream of consciousness writing on what you are grateful for today – just today –...

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Your unique voice – share it!

We take a pause from monthly photo albums for a little bit of actual, thoughtful writing. Over the last year I’ve been filling my newly released time (kid away at college, no more volunteering to...

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When TV collides with life: Trump, House of Cards, FBI & CSI Cyber

Quick note to start – yes, I am still training and fundraising. In fact, it would be fabulous if you would throw in $30 to the cause. I pretty much need $30/day for the rest of the time to meet the...

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