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Continue reading →: You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. MAHATMA GANDHI Are you impervious to the way others feel about you? Is anyone? We might all like to believe that we are such, but the…
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Continue reading →: First it hurts, then it changes you.First it hurts, then it changes you. Some of the most difficult lessons in life, are anything but painless. That is perhaps why those particular lessons are so hard to actually learn. You need to experience them empirically prior to your having a real understanding about what someone else is…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like, and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like, and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living. RACHEL MARIE MARTIN How often are your preconceived notions accurate? We all forecast concepts of what we believe is going to…
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Continue reading →: Don’t depend too much on anyone. Everyone changes when they meet new people.Don’t depend too much on anyone. Everyone changes when they meet new people. In the professional world, we are caught short by enabling one particular client to consume too large of an overall percentage of our volume of work. It is a very common scenario where one particular relationship is…
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Continue reading →: The hardest battle is between what you know in your head and what you feel in your heart.The hardest battle is between what you know in your head and what you feel in your heart. Truly one of life’s hardest quandaries is the prospect of having to choose between what your mind tells you to be so, and what your heart truly wants. In your mind, you…
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Continue reading →: Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. PAULO COELHO Nothing spectacular has ever been created without a deep passion. Certainly there are countless magnificent things that have been created as part of an employment contract. This happens daily, all over the planet. But to accomplish…
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Continue reading →: Everybody Wants To Be Somebody; Nobody Wants To Grow.So you really want to be “somebody.“ What does that even mean? The definition would have to start within oneself. A personal visualization of a distinctive shift from where one is currently to the new status that one is seeking. The myriad of permutations that this can take is as…
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Continue reading →: You Cannot Be Lonely If You Like The Person You Are Alone With.The protracted isolation of Covid has been illuminating in so many ways. Obviously, deprivation from things that one loves and appreciates always has a propensity to increase one’s appreciation of them all the more. And increase the longing for them. That said, unforeseen circumstances always have the opportunity to help…
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Continue reading →: Try To Be A Rainbow In Someone’s Cloud.What does it take to be a rainbow? Understanding? Compassion? Empathy? Sensitivity? Whatever the formula, an understanding of what it takes to constitute a rainbow in somebody else’s world is a magical gift that you can actually give yourself, just by going the extra distance. Just by recognizing that you…
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Continue reading →: Stand For What Is Right. Even If It Means Standing Alone.What makes something right? Is it a rule of law? Is it one’s perception of what one believes God‘s rule is? Or is there something that is even more obvious? This one particular question goes all the way back to prehistoric times. Before written law, before spoken word, before societal…
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