Tag: Serene Living
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How to Make It Better
Photo by fdecomite By the end of the first hour at the office, I was feeling overwhelmed and didn’t like it very much. Not that anything was particularly any weightier than usual. It was just the annoying little time and energy consumers that plague most work days and add unnecessary stress. Most of them are…
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Why I'm Not Looking for My "Other Half"
Photo by Dave Parker It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still…
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7 Tips to Stop Getting Advice You Don't Want
Bowl of Smoke photo by Melanie Cook. A few years back, imperfect strangers would stop me in the grocery store and give me advice. On everything. My looks, my clothes, my love life, my purchases. Everything. If one more person had told me what I should do with my life, I would have exploded. I…
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The Bracelet Challenge
Some of my favorite bracelets. It’s not that I aspire to be Xena, Warrior Priestess, with my armbands and steel brassiere. (Okay, maybe I do, but that’s beside the point.) It’s a challenge I’m taking. Some people refer to it as the “Bracelet Challenge,” but I’m not using it in quite the same way…
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The Best Happiness Advice a Teen Ever Gave Her Mom
Photo by Derek Kolb. Since my divorce three years ago, my older daughter has come up with some real gems. Forget all the self-help gurus in the world–my teenager’s guidelines for joyful living boil down to these three. Never take advice from unhappy people. That might seem simple, but how often do we really think…