What is your Raison d’être?

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What is your Raison d’être? What is your reason for being? What is your purpose? What great thing you are here to accomplish? When I say GREAT thing, I do not mean BIG thing. I mean any-sized thing. I am on an amazing journey with a lovely group of women who are eager to do the… [Continue Reading]

Teachers, your words have tremendous power…

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I just heard an 18 year old on THE VOICE whose singing made me smile. What he said about is 8th grade teacher, however, made me cringe and weep. She told him he would never amount to anything! Blake Shelton said “SCREW HER!” Adam Levine asked “What’s her name?” The classy young man decided not to… [Continue Reading]

Re-purposing behaviors…I want that!

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A couple of months ago I spoke with writer Paul Carr about his journey to quit drinking. I know that he has created some controversy and this post is not taking sides on those issues. This post is about him being astute enough to treat himself to something expensive JUST beyond his normal sober reach…. [Continue Reading]

Get out of your way…

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Getting out of your way is not a 10 year plan…it is a NOW plan. It is a DECIDE and IMPLEMENT plan. Most of all, it is a promise you make to YOURSELF to move ahead with your dreams and take a risk. I learned how to swim competitively to complete an Olympic Distance Triathlon. I took a… [Continue Reading]

The Courage of a Stallion

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How much do you think a stallion weighs? Go ahead…make a guess. Do you think that a stallion has courage and strength? Do you think the bigger the stallion, the more courageous? Daring? What if I told you that there is a breed of stallions that weight about 28 lbs? Would you believe me? Well… [Continue Reading]

Graffiti

Graffiti by Boss Tweed on flickr

I have been looking back at my life recently and began to see that my life has been like a big wall. Grounded, and in the early days that wall had the potential to become the wall of an office building to achieving success in business; a wall of a home, a structure of nurturing… [Continue Reading]

These united states of CONFUSION – PART 3

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If you missed parts 1 &2, here they are: Part 1 & Part 2  This week we focus on the Ultimate Principle and the YOU Principle. Let’s just collapse it for this blog as your Ultimate You. The YOU you were created to be. The reason you were born. Were you born to watch 5… [Continue Reading]

These united states of CONFUSION – PART 2

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If you missed last week’s Unites States of Confusion, here it is…  Let’s take it from there, shall we? The only way to get someplace other than where you are… Is first to KNOW that you want to make the journey. I want to journey from this confusion… It is suffocating here. I can barely… [Continue Reading]

Do you pledge allegiance… to YOU?

Declaration by Techhie on flickr

We are about to celebrate another Independence Day in these United States. I am not a born American but I became a citizen of this, my adopted country, as soon as I could. For myself, I found MY personal independence here in the Unites States of America. Why does America inspire so many to LIVE… [Continue Reading]

When you wish upon a star

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…Makes no difference who you are.  The song written for Walt Disney’s 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio, rings so true when it comes to our dreams and happiness.  We forget the “makes no difference who you are”!  We do not dignify our dreams and wish for happiness.  Perhaps we ignore our wishes out of feeling embarrassed,… [Continue Reading]