Do You Think Counting Lattes Will Pave The Path To Your Financial Freedom?
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Posted on March 7, 2012 by

  If you are any­thing like I am, life is a con­tin­ual growth process, and no area has required more of me than becom­ing a grown up with my pocket book! It seems our rela­tion­ship with money con­nects to the core of who we were raised to be, whom we are becom­ing, and, our secu­rity along the way. I will be the first to … Continue read­ing →

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Helicopters and Hail Marys: Find Prayers That Work For YOU!
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Posted on February 29, 2012 by

  I have a sacred place I go every­day to pray and med­i­tate. They have a chapel, a med­i­ta­tion labyrinth, desert land­scape and beau­ti­ful gar­dens through­out. It is truly mag­nif­i­cent, and I feel immense grat­i­tude that this peace­ful oasis is only a few short min­utes drive from my home. Recently, I started tak­ing my ten year old step­son with me on the week­end. When we entered the tiny … Continue read­ing →

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Are You Ready To Take Your Life Back From The Social Media Dark Hole?
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Posted on February 22, 2012 by

  My head hurts! Not in a headachey way, but in a “too much information”…or TMI — as the young­sters are sayin’ — way. First, there was LinkedIn. Then Facebook and Twitter. However, now, if you want to be ranked, Google Plus is a must. Of course, YouTube, owned by Google can be vital, too. And, it seems, if you don’t burn an … Continue read­ing →

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Is It Possible For A Tee To Look Good And Feel Good?
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Posted on February 15, 2012 by

  How can it be that time after time t-shirts gen­er­ally don’t fit right? Of course we are all dif­fer­ent shapes and sizes, but how is it pos­si­ble that vir­tu­ally every t-shirt is tight under the arms? Or, too short in the waist? And, either fully dis­plays our “girls” or is cut like a boy’s crew? I’m happy to report that … Continue read­ing →

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Are You Making Life A Hardship With Your “No Pain No Gain” Mentality?
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Posted on February 8, 2012 by

In last week’s blog I promised that I would make a list of all of my pesky “to-do” demons, give them a time and a date to get done, and report back. I came up with SIXTEEN irri­tat­ing lit­tle to big things that have been drain­ing my energy and zap­ping my focus. I did indeed sched­ule a time for com­ple­tion of each one, and even got a few … Continue read­ing →

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Just Thinking About Getting All These Pesky Items Completed Has Me Delirious With Anticipation…
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by

  I did it! I FINALLY fixed my kitchen shelf! It took me exactly 7 months, 4 days and 6 min­utes. You guessed it…I thought about repair­ing it for 7 months and 4 days. And, yes­ter­day, when I took the plunge it took me a whop­ping 6 min­utes to com­plete the project. 1 minute to get a screw­driver. 90 sec­onds to remove every­thing from the shelf. About 30 sec­onds to … Continue read­ing →

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Are Your Expectations Limiting The Joy In Life?
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Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Resolutions are not my thing. I wrote in an ear­lier blog post, that I find last­ing change is more about focus­ing on adding the pos­i­tive than putting energy into tak­ing away the neg­a­tive. Exercise, for exam­ple, is an inte­gral part of my health and well-being. Neither of which I have done much of the last 6 months. Rather than fig­ure out the “hows and … Continue read­ing →

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Why Do Smart Girls Like Stupid TV?
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Posted on January 18, 2012 by

  I’m meant to write about skin­care today…and, while I do have a trea­sure trove of won­der­ful tips that I’ve dis­cov­ered over the years, I sit on the sofa, flip­ping between a whale dis­sec­tion on PBS and 30 Rock re-runs. So far, 30 Rock wins… Today, some­one said… “why do smart girls like stu­pid tv?” Thank you…I think… One of my girl­friends doesn’t have cable access. … Continue read­ing →

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Is The Voice In Your Head Telling You The Truth? If Not What Can You Do About It?
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Posted on January 10, 2012 by

  Months — if not years — of ther­apy, hun­dreds of hours and thou­sands of dol­lars spent…and, are we still unable to have har­mony in our present day rela­tion­ships? How can this be? “They did the best they could” is what we finally muster? How many of us have reached this less than sat­is­fac­tory sum­ma­tion of our upbring­ing? I surely did! … Continue read­ing →

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Effortless Change And Why Addition Is The Key To Subtraction
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Posted on January 5, 2012 by

  This time of year many of us are focused on change. I am always open to improv­ing. However, years of res­o­lu­tions, plan­ning, sched­ul­ing, moti­vat­ing, gain­ing and los­ing momen­tum and pulling myself up by my boot­straps has taught me that I never seem to have much luck forc­ing growth…nor, by just say­ing “no.” In fact my track record with this approach … Continue read­ing →

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