Category: Inspiration
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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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Love Yourself = Honor Yourself
The third ELAN Principle is Love Yourself. Yeah, yeah, we have heard it before. Easy to say, so hard to do. If love = honor, all the more difficult. After all, we are taught to be humble, and rightly so. But that does NOT mean to hold feelings of dishonor, derision or disrespect toward oneself.…
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Technical Glitches Abound…
That is a terrible title for my Wednesday post about my publishing journey, but sadly fitting. Some of you may have popped on last week and seen a lovely post on Monday. Now it is gone. Even the helpful people at wordpress couldn’t find it. But here’s the good news – I changed my standard…
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Monday, Monday…
Apologies if that song is now stuck in your head for the remainder of the day. You know the one, by the Mamas and the Papas? Monday morning, so good to me etc. A brain worm, for sure. Maybe it is on purpose that I post the inspirational ELAN blogs on Monday to help us…
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I Wonder…
On Fridays, I’ll be adding a short inspirational quote, paragraph or perhaps some of my own words. Here is a thought for this Friday: “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
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Wandering in the Writing World
This week I am continuing my journey of writing, revising and researching publishing options. Although I was not selected to try out for the pilot episode of America’s Next Great Author (see earlier post on the Wandering page), I have been in contact with the creators and heard some encouraging feedback. Plus it was tons…
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ELAN Blog becomes PattyMayeuxBlog
A few years back I hosted a blog based on 10 principles by which I strive to guide my day to day decisions and behaviors. ELAN stands for Elevating Life Attitudes Now. You can read more about the 10 principles here. The PattyMayeuxBlog will include those principles as well as notes on my personal journey…
Patty Mayeux Blog 