Tag: life lessons
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The World is Full of Good People: Focusing Our Energy On What We Want
My daily routine includes scrolling my Facebook feeds of pages I’ve liked. All of these pages are there to surround me with the good energy I want in my life. I love seeing similar messages from different pages that inspire love, positive action, and moving people away from victim thinking. Every once in awhile, I will see…
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Don’t Let Your Thinking Get in Your Way
What messages are you feeding yourself? We create our realities by repeating the stories over and over. From that, our actions do what are brains say we need to. When make statements that limit us, we convince ourselves they are true and we act accordingly. Relationships are Hard Work When I define a healthy relationship, I don’t think…
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Leaving Autopilot and Becoming Present
I used to live everyday in autopilot. I was caught up in the same routine, thinking the same things, doing the same things. The insanity of the situation was I expected different results. I hated the life I was living. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. What is scary about autopilot is that…
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When Do I Know When it is Time to Leave?
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; What matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” -Paulo Coelho I wasn’t planning on writing today, but I kept seeing messages that I…
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Bring On 40
“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.” -Carl G. Jung Today, I’m 40. I have been looking forward to this day for many reasons. First, I made it!!!! Yes, I had some sketchy years that made me question if I was going to make it to 40, but…
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The Power of Nature
“Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their innermost being, their true nature.” -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose p. 2 Location: Myakka River in Venice, FL Seeing the beauty in nature is how I know when I am…
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Letting Go of Happily Ever After
I stopped trying to find “happily ever after”. I learned to understand that it belongs in those one to two hour fairytales that I watch on screen. I realized, I didn’t see the person in front of me when I was focused on the unpredictable forever. I would create a story of how a partner should…
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Lessons in the Drama
“Argue with your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” -Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah p. 75 Drama can be a great inspiration to grow. Life can be nice, calm, and move along, but where is the fun in that. When we start seeing drama as a teacher, we can appreciate…
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Give Yourself the Love You Deserve
Thoughts are like data programmed into a computer, registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in going up to the screen and trying to erase it. Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you…
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Discovering the Meaning of Love
“My negativity was as destructive to me as alcohol is to the alcoholic. I was an artist finding my own jugular. It was as though I was addicted to my own pain.” -Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love p. 9 Coming from a divorced home, it is not uncommon to have problems with intimate relationships. If there…
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