P is for Passion – Click Click Click

Click. Click. Click. There’s no place like home. Follow your passion. Find your passion. It’s the pathway to happiness, so goes the recent hype. I jerk my head up and think, I better hurry up and get out there and search for mine. I thought when I retired from teaching what a wonderful opportunity to . . . → Read More: P is for Passion – Click Click Click

What God Gives

Yesterday I wrote about embracing discomfort. I wasn’t having a comfortable day. It seems, awhile ago, I have been asked by God to traipse new territory. Along the way He has asked me to step up and do something I know I must do, but have been avoiding. It seemed yesterday was the day.

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Embracing Discomfort

Lately I’ve been into Tabata cardio elliptical workouts. In the one I’ve been doing the end is really hard. After 6 sets of Tabatas (go as fast as you can for twenty seconds then as slow as you can for ten seconds, at varied inclines and resistances) you have to keep the incline at ten . . . → Read More: Embracing Discomfort

Regaining Control

My husband and I are watching the Patriots beating the Steelers 24-10 at halftime. This has been such a comfortable game compared to the last few weeks when we sat here watching Tom throw and ball after ball get dropped. Games were lost and won with much anxiety and frustration. Not so today. Today Tom . . . → Read More: Regaining Control

N is for Needs

Welcome to the fun Friday A-Z blog hop. This weeks letter is N and “Needs” came to mind when thinking about being able to find and follow one’s passion. While driving, I remembered Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs I studied way back when in college. (I’m amazed I still remember these things – back then . . . → Read More: N is for Needs

Awareness

Today I write about awareness because awareness could’ve saved my mother’s life. She could still be here on this earth enjoying life with my dad and her children and grandchildren, but because thirty years ago there was no awareness about a terrible disease that eventually killed her, she is not.

Last night I went . . . → Read More: Awareness

A Secret Weapon

Today I found a secret weapon to fight something that plagues us all at one time or another – fear. Consider these words by Marianne Williamson:

Fear is trusting in your own power.

So few words to hold such an immense thought. That’s EXACTLY what fear is – trusting your own self and how you . . . → Read More: A Secret Weapon

M is for Meditation

Back in August I started to take a serious look at meditation. Prayer I’m good with. Meditation…ah…not so much. In August I gave it my first serious shot with the Oprah/Deepak 21 day meditation challenge. I figured I needed something with a commitment, instructions, and a lot of structure for me to be able to . . . → Read More: M is for Meditation

Success…or Not?…or Maybe?

I don’t know how you define “success”, but if you’re like me you define it by achieving a goal you set. If you mention the word success it automatically communicates that something has been accomplished – and it was a positive thing.

A few of my goals were to write this blog everyday and . . . → Read More: Success…or Not?…or Maybe?

Examining Change

These past few weeks change seems to be on the table. One thing I have come to learn about change is that it always occurs with a fair amount of chaos and discomfort. Often we what we mistake for things spinning out of control, is just a prelude to a change of some sort.

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