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How Do You Manage Your Feelings?

We have somewhere between 6000 and 60,000 thoughts a day.  Since our thoughts create our feelings, that’s a lot of thoughts and feelings to sift through each and every day. Whether you are crazy busy running a home, a family, a job, a business or you are simply looking for the motivation to do be…

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Are You A Procrastinator?

Do you suffer from procrastination? As I sat down to write this morning, I found myself needing to throw a load of laundry in the machine, answer ALL of my emails, and start planning what I was going to make for dinner tonight. So, yes, I was guilty of procrastinating today too.  Everyone has some…

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Are You Afraid To Fail?

Do you know what most human beings FEAR the most? I’m not talking about phobias like snakes, spiders, and heights. I am talking about what people are most AFRAID of in their everyday lives. The #1 Fear is Failure.  I know this first hand because a few years ago, I left a 30-plus year career in the television business…

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Are You OverScheduled?

“I am SOOO busy!!” This was my mantra for years. I used to be so busy managing my television career, my family, my home, and my friends, that I felt like I was just a hamster on a wheel.  If multitasking and scheduling were an Olympic sport, I would have received a gold medal. But it wasn’t……

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Sometimes Less Is More

As someone who loves walking through forests, admiring beautifully landscaped gardens, and eating fresh vegetables, I do NOT have a green thumb. I have what is known as a black thumb or a “numb thumb.” I have never successfully grown an edible vegetable nor maintained an herb garden.  I live on a beautiful property with hundreds of mature trees and plants,…

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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work

Here we are into Day 5 of the New Year, and due to the new Covid variant running amok, it’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day: The 2022 Edition. We are all tired of this pandemic, but the pandemic does not seem to be tired of us.  Silly me, I thought if we washed our…

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Money Money Money

Everyone has a “Money Story.” Money stories are the emotional relationship you have with YOUR money.  Whether it is earning it, saving it, or spending it.   Money is not just a THING that we have or don’t have. Money is emotional.   Your relationship with money comes from your upbringing… Whether you were born with it or…

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Are You A Holiday OverDoer?

Do the holidays trigger all of your OVERDOING tendencies? I know they do mine.  I love the holidays, but I find myself getting anxious to get it all done.  While I am busy decorating, shopping, wrapping, cooking, cleaning, I am noticing that my self-care starts to wane a bit too.  Suddenly, I am not as…