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  • Push Me

    27 Apr 2020

    When 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 2020

    I 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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  • Learning to Listen

    02 Aug 2019

    I am learning to listen. Listening to the silent cues that help me navigate perspective. Listening for what’s missing. I got caught up in the noise. At first, it seemed important, critical that I should pay rapt attention. It kept getting louder and louder, creating fear and trepidation. Why was it scary? Because, I couldn’t […]

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  • Reigning in Your Focus

    23 Jun 2019

    For 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 2019

    Moves 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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  • Pissy, Unapologetic and Fed-Up

    17 Aug 2017

    I cannot deal with your anger. And, I don’t necessarily disagree with you. Either you manufactured your outrage, or you have mastered the art of unskilled communication – but the daily outbursts are not convincing me to empathize with you; even though I may agree with you. The world is noisy enough, people. We have […]

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  • Don’t Let The Old Man In!

    28 Apr 2017

    I 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 2017

    Letting 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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  • I’m All Ears – The Art of Listening

    11 Nov 2016

    It’s an interesting time in America right now. Is anyone listening? When I work with groups in my corporate gigs, I teach soft skills in leadership and communication. I teach conflict resolution and how to give productive, well accepted feedback that doesn’t escalate to conflict. But… Emotions are running high lately in our society. We […]

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  • Mired in the Quicksand

    28 Oct 2016

    This 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 2016

    Ever 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 2016

    My 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 2016

    Tend 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 2016

    Chugga, 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 […]

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  • The Unravelment

    27 May 2016

    The Unravelment It hasn’t happened in a while and doesn’t happen often, but the other day, I came unraveled I’m a frayed. I like to think I can steer my own ship, but I was taking on water, so put out an  SOS to a friend. Friends are wonderful for such things, but make sure […]

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