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Belinda Cunningham recently initiated an innovative program—the Blog Mastery Award! Follow her initial honorees here.  This is an award she honored ten bloggers with, who offered value to the community.  These ten then selected ten other bloggers who are amongst their favorites. The idea is to link back to the person who nominated you, and [...]

Powerless!  Do you ever tap into that “emotional tar pit?”  If so, what do you do with it? One week ago I felt powerless to walk 12’ to confront a stranger.  That experience coughed up childhood memories of feeling powerless.  From them, I developed coping skills (albeit not always healthy ones) to drag myself out [...]

Jingle, jangle goes the alarm clock. It’s 6:00 a.m. on trash pick-up day in a sleepy suburb of San Diego. I roust my son out of bed to take the cans to the curb, gather the last of the garbage and head out to the trash bins around the corner of the house. There is [...]

“I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. ” Winston Churchill Since the age of five, he knew he would be a doctor.  I was there when he opened his [...]

“I ain’t what I ought to be, and I ain’t what I’m going to be. But I ain’t what I was!” Sign in a Western Town Grab a really dear friend and share this book together: Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, by William Bridges. It can open doors for you that you didn’t know existed.  [...]

“You are the leader of your life.” Jonathan Budd Day 20 of a 30-day video challenge arrives.  I draw a blank. The fear of limiting beliefs can bring you to a standstill. In the morning emails, there is a video from Jonathan Budd.  He shares a heart-to-heart conversation on how he’s changing his life by [...]

“The critical decisions in life are always the tiny ones.” Jeff Olson Whether we are conscious of it or not, the smallest decisions we make on a daily basis produce our lifetime results. Steve was a struggling English teacher, living paycheck to paycheck.  He wrote a 55-page story about a high school girl.  Then despondency [...]