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Quote of the Week…
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain
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Keep in Touch…
Imagine sitting at a luscious table set for a day of Thanksgiving. Golden candlelight reflects in the wine or water in faceted goblets. Mounds of roasted, braised, smoked, even fried meats are surrounded by fruits and vegetables of every color of the rainbow. Maybe the table is carved from mahogany or oak. Maybe it is…
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Fishing and Focusing…
The fourth ELAN Principle is Cast a Wide Net, with a subtitle of Focus on Your Goal. Sound confusing? In order to reap the benefits of focus, we must bring many experiences into our lives. So much about the ELAN principles (and these blog posts) is about uncovering our true passion based on innate characteristics…
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Quote of the Week…
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold towards them.” Elbert Hubbard
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Betwixt Between…
This Wednesday I find myself both returning home and preparing to gather with loved ones for an early Thanksgiving tradition of family, friends, and food (lots of food). These days we take what time together we can grasp if only for a few days or one big meal and while we miss those who can’t…
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High Praise…
This Monday we continue the sticky wicket of loving and honoring ourselves without sounding self-righteous, ego-centric and (horrors!) conceited. To honor someone is to hold them in high esteem or respect. There will be more discussions in future posts regarding the correct offer of respect only when one is deserving. For now, respect means to…
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Quote of the Week…
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.: Alice Walker
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Confessions of a blogger…
These Wednesday posts are meant to share my joys/frustrations/challenges of sending my written words into the big wide world. Today I confess two things. One, I am still finessing the posting world via this wonderful wordpress site. For example, I sometimes pre-post and schedule them to go live a few days later. But today I…
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The selfless act of honoring oneself…
Continuing our Monday discussion from last week, to honor and love oneself means to offer our best, and to hold a portion of our fruits for our own consumption. Wait, does the title say selfless or selfish? If one lets go of a fear that there is not enough (love, money, fruits, self…) to go…
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Today’s Friday Quote
“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.” Sir Thomas Brown, 1778-1820
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