Life Is Made To Be Lived

There is a wonderful saying I love that describes life in a perfect way: Some days you're the bug, and some days you're the windshield. I often find myself repeating this - usually more when I'm in the squished flat camp rather than the brazen, take-no-prisoners world of the windshield set - but from either …

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Hello Ego, So We Meet Again

Author's Note: Please Like and Share if you like what you hear, otherwise the Complaints department is at the bottom under the label 'Comments' 😉 See you next Wednesday!   "Today, before we start, I want you all to close your eyes and visualize a pose that you feel an aversion to," my yoga instructor tells …

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A Rut on the Road

"I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit."                                                                     …

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Honey, It Ain’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings

You might be familiar with the tale of the tortoise and the hare, but if you are not, let me give you a quick refresher. A tortoise and a hare join each other for a race, in which the hare - quite clearly the faster of the two - easily overtakes the tortoise and is …

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Perfect is the Enemy of Done

          “If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.”                                                                                       …

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Today is a (No Good, Very Bad) Sick Day.

This is what the conversation in my head sounded like this morning: Me: "I can't come in." [faux coughs] "I'm sick." Also Me: "Boo, you whore!" Mean Girls reference aside, here is the current situation - I have called in a fabricated sick day to my very real boss, me. Now in any given work situation …

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Urgent vs. Important

"The things that are urgent are seldom important and the things that are important are seldom urgent." Accredited to Dwight D. Eisenhower  Easier said than done, Mr. President. Whatever you say about urgent, it looks damn good. Instant satisfaction, you do it and the results are in. No courtship here, just a hey, how you doin', 3 …

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