Changing your story: An unbelievable personal tale

September 11, 2011

Technologically speaking, it’s been a hell of month. I wouldn’t believe it if I wasn’t (barely) living through it. It all started August 9th when hubby, Willow and I were driving from Detroit to Montreal. We purposely chose to do the 10 hour drive during a work day so that I could work most of [...]

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Mo’ money…

September 8, 2011

The purpose of money is to buy stuff.   It has no other purpose. I know, the “stuff” money buys sometimes sounds loftier and more meaningful than cars and electronics. Sometimes you buy experiences, which you interpret as “wisdom” or “adventure”. Or education, which you call “freedom” or “opportunity”.  It’s easy to spin the story so [...]

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Choose again

September 1, 2011

*This post is Part II in a two part installment on making choices. Here’s part I.*  Most decisions in life are reversible. If you don’t like the choice you made, choose again. If you pick the wrong college or the wrong major or the wrong career, so what? Choose again. If you choose a paint color [...]

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Abundance breeds abundance

August 28, 2011

I ran across this short vlog on Huffington Post today. I love talking about the Cure for Envy.  She says it well.

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There is no perfect choice

August 25, 2011

*This post is Part I in a two part installment on making choices* Ever noticed how easy it is to get worked up when you’re choosing between options? Last week a client was struggling with the choice between being induced or letting her baby come on its own, both of which (given her health history) [...]

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The whole picture? Or mentally myopic?

August 18, 2011

Things often seem really dire when you’re up close.  Like when you’re pregnant and sweaty and starving and you think your husband looked a little too long at a hot, un-pregnant woman on the street. When you accuse him of not loving you anymore, you’re looking at the situation a little too close up.  Just [...]

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How to change the world

August 11, 2011

(I didn’t write this one…Illuminated Mind did. Originally titled “Change the world by Being Who you Are”) It’s easy to think that we don’t have an impact. It’s easy to say “I’m too small” or think that what you do doesn’t matter. That’s a lie. Every action you take ripples out into the world. Yes, [...]

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The cast of characters in your life

August 4, 2011

Every once and a while I talk to someone who asks permission to end a friendship. They say something like, “Is it really okay that I stop calling?”, or “I can’t just ‘break-up’ with her…can I?”  Here’s my view on relationships: Life is like a play—there are many scenes and a rotating cast of characters. [...]

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Wouldn’t THIS be wild?

July 28, 2011

What if all humans were equal?  Not just created equal…what if we couldn’t help but remain equals our entire lives no matter what happened to us or what choices we made?   What if all the evidence we use to separate ourselves from others; all those facts and all that proof we use to decide that [...]

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You’re doing exactly what you want to do

July 21, 2011

I hear a lot of people say that they want to do things they’re not doing. I say they don’t really want to do those things. They only think they want to. Like, you might say, “I’d really want to write a book” or “I’d love to be a long-distance runner” but if you don’t [...]

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