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Always a Choice
Over the past week I have spoken at several events where I’ve shared one of my mantras: I cannot always control what happens to me, but I can always control how I respond to what happens to me. Understanding that we have an amazing power – the power to choose – is incredibly empowering. Regardless of [...]
Continue reading...Show and Tell
4. March 2010
As little kids many of us had “Show and Tell” time in our classrooms. This was a time, usually once a week, when we could bring in an item from home to show to the class. We’d stand up in front of the room and show our trinket and tell the other students all about [...]
Continue reading...Extraordinary Pain, Extraordinary Joy
25. February 2010
Several months ago I was virtually introduced to a remarkable teenager named Estar Hester. Estar is 18 but is wise beyond her years. Unfortunately this wisdom has come at a great price. Estar was born six weeks premature and was put on a heart-lung machine. She was born with a hole in her diaphragm that [...]
Continue reading...If Asking for Help is for the Weak, Sign Me Up!
18. February 2010
Last week my daughter came home from school terribly upset because of a bad test grade in her Honors Geometry class. Due to the design of the school, she is taking a year-long course in a semester. Add to that the honors expectations and several missed days of school due to inclement weather and the [...]
Continue reading...Great Things to Come
11. February 2010
Last week I wrote about disappointment and how we can choose to see it not as the end of the story, but as the beginning of a new chapter. I shared that even though I had just experienced a major disappointment – an event that had been in the works for almost a year had [...]
Continue reading...The End of the Story?
4. February 2010
For almost a year I have had my sights set on a specific event. I had researched it, planned for it and committed to seeing it come to fruition. As much as I told myself my future was not tied to this event, I had put all my emotional eggs “in one basket” because I [...]
Continue reading...Cheers to New Experiences
28. January 2010
I didn’t post last week because my husband, Chuck, and I were on vacation. For the first time ever we committed to going on vacation without technology – no laptops, no social media, no blackberries. (Okay, we took our phones to Miami, but turned them off as soon as we boarded the ship.) And what [...]
Continue reading...Buckets of Joy
14. January 2010
Many people are great collectors. They collect everything from stamps to metal lunch boxes to trinkets from travels. Because I don’t like clutter I’m not a very big collector of things. I do have a small collection of rubber duckies that have begun circling my bathtub. The duckies have come mostly from my husband who [...]
Continue reading...Reframing: A Remarkable Tool
7. January 2010
We are officially a week into the New Year. I hope yours is starting out wonderfully well and that you are excited about what lies ahead in the next 358 days! I know I am. If I could give you one gift to start out the year strongly it would be the gift of [...]
Continue reading...Possibilities and Opportunities
31. December 2009
It is hard to believe today is the last day of 2009. It’s amazing just how quickly 365 days can pass by. For many 2009 was a very challenging year, both personally and professionally. For others it was just another year lived, nothing special, nothing monumental. But for some, 2009 was [...]
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11. March 2010
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