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Limitations blog Sep 28, 2021

This week I am taking a mini-course on memory with Jim Kwik. One of the things he says is that if you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. If you believe you have a bad memory, then you will keep on having a bad memory and be unable to remember things.

I say “We are all...

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Where You Should Be blog Sep 28, 2021

This quote was in my Facebook feed recently (from findyourshinetherapy):

Some people finish college and start their careers at age 22, only to find themselves unhappy and starting over when they are 35. Others start working a minimum wage job at age 16 and work their way up the company ladder,...

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Telling the Future blog Sep 28, 2021

I was talking with a friend the other day about a project she was working on. In her opinion, it was not going well and she thought it would probably be a failure in the end. I told her that if that’s how she approached the rest of the project, it probably would turn out to be a failure.

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A Big Deal blog Sep 28, 2021

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.   -Neil Gaiman

We are all like this. Each person is absolutely unique, with their own talents, strengths, interests, and...

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The Right Way blog Sep 28, 2021

When we were children, we were taught the “right way” to do things. Out parents taught us how to do things the way that they were taught, and that became the “right way”. They may not have liked it if we did things a different way. Our teachers taught us the “right...

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Independence blog Sep 28, 2021

Today is July 4th, and in the United States we are celebrating Independence Day.

Independence is a relative term. We can enjoy different levels of freedom in different areas of our lives. I think we all strive for independence from something… To varying degrees, we all feel bound by other...

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Under Pressure blog Sep 28, 2021

We are all magnificent. We are all meant to express our unique selves. Soon after we are born, we begin to interact with people who want us to behave a certain way. Don’t cry. Don’t be angry. Don’t play in the mud. Do this for me.

Over time, we got more pressure from more people...

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