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What to Do When People Always Underestimate You
By: Rylie Robinson “You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” ~Stevie Wonder Being blatantly underestimated is simply a part of my life. No matter what I’m doing, the ordinary will seem extraordinary, and the extraordinary will seem insurmountable to those who look at me for the first time. There is no way I am…
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The Secret to Replacing Agitation with Calmness
By: Jenna Drew “Calmness is the cradle of power.” ~Josiah Gilbert Holland I was interested, recently, to find that our local supermarket had set up an area with ten self-service checkouts. For years I‘d accepted the normal method of bagging and paying for my stuff. No stress there. But they’d installed some new technology and I…
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Life Is Shaping Us Through Our Dreams
By: Alexander Dunlop “With ‘I’ eliminated, this is Nirvana, here and now.” ~ Buddha I remember when I started learning Spanish in college. I wanted to visit Spain. I had grand ideas about a romantic voyage. And yes, I had a foreign language credit to fill. If you know the Spanish language at all, you know…
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7 Tips for Pursuing Your Passion, Even If You Feel Behind
By AJ Walton “Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman From center stage I looked out into the crowd as the stage lights warmed my face and did their best to obscure my vision….
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How Painful Relationships Can Be The Best Teachers
By: Jill Gross “Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.” ~Unknown “This is it,” I thought. I finally found the man I had been waiting for. Of course, it had taken me thirty-nine years and a painful divorce from my husband of ten years. But that was all worth it, I told myself,…
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Baby Steps: A Simple Guide to Doing Something New
By: Harriet Cabelly “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” ~Proverb Two years ago, after hearing Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project, talk about setting up one’s own blog, I went home and did just that. It had been something I…
