Category: Self Improvement
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Breaking Up With Sugar
Reading Time: < 1 minute We all have relationships that definitely don’t enhance our lives. I’ve often said that if you are with someone who doesn’t bring out the best in you, that’s not a relationship you want to nurture. In fact, it’s emotionally healthy to minimize or sever those kinds of relationships. Yesterday I… Read more
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Bookbait
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I work through the lessons of this publishing course I signed up for a few weeks ago, there are assignments that help clarify your book idea, audience, and a host of other things necessary to get a book that people actually want to read published. Assignment #1 was writing your… Read more
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Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutes Those of you who’ve known me a very (VERY) long time know that for the past 40 years I’ve been talking about a concept I dubbed Thinking 2 Steps Ahead (T2SA). In the early 2000s I even trademarked the phrase and designed workshops that I taught around the area to audiences… Read more
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Where There’s a Will…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Holy smokes I’ve had a good week. My niece and her family were here most of last week and our time together was delightful. They’re a nice family who follows directions well. I asked them to treat our home like an AirBnB, making themselves comfortable and at home because I wasn’t… Read more
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What’s Worth Your Energy?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. Some days I try to remember that as my energy level flags. Then I wonder if that’s why the sales of energy drinks these days are so brisk. Is the… Read more
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Six Months Later
Reading Time: 2 minutes About 6 months ago I wrote a post about a book I’d discovered called The Well-Lived Life. Click on its title in the sentence before this and you’ll be taken to that original post. I recommended rereading the book every 6 months as needed. I couldn’t have been more right, if… Read more
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Going Cold Turkey
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m not losing any weight. I feel better, the fasting is going well, but the weight is stubbornly not coming off. I listened to some fasting YouTube videos while puzzling yesterday to see if I’d soak up any motivation or be inspired to weight loss excellence. I randomly picked this… Read more
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The Guest Test
Reading Time: 5 minutes When you live in Southwest Florida, weather wise, winter is the most magnificent time of the year. Someone once told us that there ARE two seasons in Florida, wet season and dry season. I contend that dry season could also be called guest season because dry season in Florida coincides with… Read more
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Save a LOT of Money with Zenni
Reading Time: < 1 minute Randy and I both had eye doctor appointments last week for the first time in more than three years. Between moving to Florida in 2021, the hurricane in 2022 and all of the rigamarole involved with those two significant life events, getting our eyes examined wasn’t a priority. My sister… Read more
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My Favorite IF Things
Reading Time: 5 minutes I woke up Sunday morning with “Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens” on my mind. I know. Weird. They were the favorite things Julie Andrews sang about in Sound of Music, but it prompted me to think about my favorite things about intermittent fasting (IF). My last two blog posts… Read more