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Redesign your life so that the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do
Week 2: The power of habits (good and bad) 
From drinking more water or drinking less alcohol, the use of habits can transform our lives. Eliminating bad habits like quitting smoking or starting a good habit like meditation, can help us thrive in positive ways. Often when I want to create...

 We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room-by-room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Resolve to... 
Week 1:  Lessons in change
One of the biggest, most difficult and life changing habits that transformed my life was quitting smoking....

 "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals."
 
Being Me: Week 52
 I cannot believe how quickly 52 weeks went by and in that fifty-two weeks, I set a goal to write weekly short stories with monthly themes, and I did it!
I believe the biggest lesson from goals is that you don't always have to achieve them to improve. In fact, even...

 
 
Being Me:  Week 51 Be kind to unkind people, they need it most
December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope
When I finally understood that someone being unkind was more about them than about me, my heart softened a bit and I began to recognize the pain that must be going on inside that person.
And while it is hard to not take...

You can always give something, even if it's only kindness. 
Being Me: Week 50 - Sometimes giving back can actually save you
December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope 
It's funny how I stumbled upon kindness to save me, how it grew into a season of hope instead of a spell of despair. For so long grief held me hostage, echoes of living...

"When you learn, teach, when you get, give." ~Maya Angelou 
Being Me: Week 49 Be the reason someone smiles today
December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, & most underrated agent of hope
We all know it's better to give than receive, and since losing Ryan I have learned first hand how powerful giving can be. Like the many lessons we master through each season...

Interrupt anxiety with gratitude 
Being Me: Week 48
November theme: Interrupt anxiety with gratitude
Interrupt anxiety with gratitude is a saying I have been seeing quite often lately. It is a method to help calm anxiety, with small lessons to remind us that whatever the future holds for us, we have the means, family, support, and courage to make it through. 
We can allow our thoughts to be...

Gratitude turns what we have into enough 
Being Me Week 47: Be grateful when things are going your way. Be graceful when they are not
November theme: Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
Gratitude is not about just being grateful for things when they are going your way, but also and probably more importantly, to see the good when things are not going as you had hoped.
Being...

"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." 
Being Me:  Week 46 What consumes your mind, controls your life
November theme: Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
I always regret the time I wasted worrying over something in the future, the way my mind plans how things will unfold, causing a worry I cannot control. A few words...

Gratitude helps us see what is there instead of what isn't 
Being Me: Week 45 (Count your rainbows not your thunderstorms)
November theme: Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
Why is it so hard for most of us to view our lives with the glass half full instead of half empty? Is it our past circumstances that dictate our future thoughts, or are we prone to being negative positive...