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  • January 2, 2022
     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....

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  • December 22, 2019
     "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...

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  • December 15, 2019
     
     
    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...

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  • December 8, 2019
    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...

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  • December 1, 2019
    "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...

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  • November 24, 2019
    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...

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  • November 17, 2019
    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...

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  • November 10, 2019
    "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...

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  • November 3, 2019
    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...

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  • October 27, 2019
     
    "I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all." ~ Simone Biles 
    Being Me:  Week 44 - In the end we only regret the chance we did not take
    October theme: We can't become what we want by remaining what we are
     There will always be things in life we regret. Chances we did not take, time we did not spend. But the biggest lesson of regret is the insight...

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