Archive for the ‘Better Behaviour’ Category
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Push Me
27 Apr 2020When the pandemic began, I opted for push notifications from media outlets. Boy, did they push me. I may have to push back!
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Humankind Is On A Big, Fat, Time-Out
18 Mar 2020I had a thought over coffee. Humankind is on a big, fat time-out. I think we deserved it. Did you notice how we were treating one another? It’s been happening for years. The bickering, rudeness, downright meanness we showed our fellow women and men. I quit writing because, as a behavior-based writer, I couldn’t bear to […]
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Reigning in Your Focus
23 Jun 2019For a year, or two, I haven’t written much. I felt like I was beating the same, noisy drum…no one was listening to my rhythm. Was I out of sync? Did I need to reign in my focus? It’s so simple, I’ve said it a million times (slight exaggeration)… What you focus on becomes your […]
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Making Your Moves – Embracing the Value of Moves and Changes
04 Mar 2019Moves come in different forms and contexts. Moves include not only our physical bodies, our locations and objects around us – but also our mental strategies and attitudes. Whenever a move is made, it creates a change. When I was in grad school, studying organizations, we learned every change made to any part of a […]
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Don’t Let The Old Man In!
28 Apr 2017I often recall the words of Clint Eastwood. When asked how he stays so young, he simply replied, “I don’t let the old man in.” Yesterday, the old woman knocked on my door. She arrives silently with her crotchety, destructive attitude. Of course, my resiliency is waning since I’m in the process of slaying a […]
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The Art of Letting Go
03 Feb 2017Letting go may be the single, most important factor in creating a joyful life. (click to Tweet) It’s not what we don’t have, it’s not what we do have, it’s the stuff we drag behind us…the weight of the expectations, the fears, the disappointments and perhaps, even, the weight of the betrayal that pull the […]
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Mired in the Quicksand
28 Oct 2016This is a repost from a previous post – which is pretty much what a repost is. Finding this one was helpful to me today – maybe it’ll be helpful to you, too. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” […]
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This Unholy Mess
21 Oct 2016Ever notice how when you get all caught up in the world you’re in tangles and dreadful and unhappy? I think I speak for a lot of us in the U.S. when I say this election has taken a toll on our personal relationships, our faith in our country and any semblance of inner peace […]
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Mind Your Manures
26 Aug 2016My mind is fertile. Even in childhood, I was the one with my head in the clouds, dreaming, scheming, generating ideas and questioning the world. Fertile minds can work for us or against us. It depends upon the fertilizer, really (click to Tweet). A mind full of dung generates steaming, fetid, heaping piles of shit. […]
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Gardening Tools – Tending Healthy Friendships
01 Jul 2016Tend your healthy Friendships – like flowers – and enjoy their blooms. Earlier this week, I read someone’s thoughts about how we sometimes defend other people, claiming, “Deep down they’re a nice person.” We all have or have had these people in our lives, who we felt needed our protection. I’ve previously referred to them […]
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Garden Party
23 Jun 2016“We’re all mad here.” “But, I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” […]
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Positive Focus – Getting Back on Track When You View the World as a Train Wreck
17 Jun 2016Chugga, chugga, choo-choooo….. Life is not always easy. I’m not prone to anxiety, but the last couple weeks my chi has been askew. Listening to news and current events makes it worse. Our world is a train wreck. Terrorist wars raging in the middle east Run-away ebola outbreak in Africa that could spread to other […]
