Living Your Life

Life Can Be A Beach

August 5th, 2012
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Today I choose to be positive and constructive.
What does that mean?
It means I am going to adopt and hang on to a beach mentality for as long as I can.  Every day at the beach I pack up my things and go and find a treasured spot to hang out.  Sometimes my friends are there first and sometimes I get there first.  But we stake out our spot in the warm and welcoming sand and the day just slowly rolls out and evolves.  We talk about nothing in particular, we read for awhile, we test out the ocean … Read More

Life Is Better At The Beach

August 4th, 2012
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I slowly close my eyes, take a deep breath and listen to the soothing rhythm of the ocean waves as they continuously break on the shore. Happily I feel the sun’s warm rays melt the tangle of stress webs in my brain and throughout my body and tell myself that I know for sure that the beach is a magical place!!! The sign pictured below is not a cliche. It’s the absolute salty and sandy truth!… Read More

Temporarily Off The Grid — Vacation

July 28th, 2012
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Go Go’s Album Cover Featuring the hit song “Vacation” Vacation All I ever wanted Vacation Had to get away. . . Vacation lyrics by: Kathy Valentine/Charlotte Caffey/Jane Wiedlin Having been in the workforce for decades, I am familiar with watching people work themselves sick.  Literally. I believe in hard work but I also believe in vacations. . . BIG TIME!  You can’t work hard unless you take breaks and allow yourself some healing and recharging space.  Vacations aren’t luxuries.  They are very necessary for helping you live longer.  Even if you don’t go anywhere, you deserve unscheduled time away from… Read More

Two Surprises in 24 Hours

July 26th, 2012
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Sometimes rebuilding your life is just plain hard.  Today’s choices are not the choices I want and, try as I might, I can’t steer things to go in the direction I want. This post is not about whining.  That would be unproductive. Instead, this post is about how I still need to work on being patient.  Life is about grabbing opportunities but then it is about dealing with what it feels like when the opportunity doesn’t work out the way you planned.  It’s about the twists and turns of life and how I need to get better at accepting and… Read More

Reach For The Stars

July 25th, 2012
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer.   Always remember, you have within you  the strength, the patience, and the passion to  reach for the stars to change the world   ~ Harriet Tubman… Read More

Foxhole People

July 23rd, 2012
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There are people in my life that I call  my “foxhole people.”  These are the family and friends that I would want next to me were I fighting a “war” involving a personal crisis and I found that I needed support to get through my “combat situation.”  I know that these people would instantly jump into the foxhole with me and they would stay with me through thick and thin until it was over.  It doesn’t matter who these people are, what matters to me is that I know the people who would do this for me and that I… Read More

10 Things To Make You Happier @ Home

July 20th, 2012
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Courtesy of Coastal Living Do you make your bed every day? Don’t worry.  I don’t either.  I know this sounds like a silly question but apparently if you do make your bed every day you are off and running to a better, more organized, happier day. I probably should smooth out the sheets and blanket and actually make my bed but I really don’t think it’s that important.  My mother is a fanatic about making my parents bed every day and one day in what I thought was a casual conversation (rookie mistake!) I dropped the bomb that I don’t… Read More

Work Can Be Rewarding

July 19th, 2012
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Work itself is the reward.  If I choose challenging work it will pay me back with interest.  At least I’ll be interested even if nobody else is.  And this attempt for excellence is what sustains the most well lived and satisfying, successful lives.    ~ Meryl Streep I am a big believer in working hard.  I grew up in a large family and ever since I can remember I have had chores and responsibilities around the house.  I got my first paying job when I was 16 years old and that’s just the way I was brought up.  A work ethic… Read More

The Secret of Life

July 18th, 2012
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I find it is important for the survival of the resilient spirits in my inner woman to make quiet time for myself.  My inner woman is all about achieving personal peace and developing emotional strength. For me, the road to personal peace is found when I seek to quiet my mind and spirit.  Usually ten to fifteen minutes every day is enough for me to gather my thoughts and to try and figure out my daily goals; or at least try and figure out what direction I think I would like for my day to take.  Sometimes my goal is… Read More