Self Help Motivation

Are you one of the people that would far rather be trying out something new rather than refurbishing an old one? Like a skill, a project, a website. I suspect that’s typical of many, and even more so of those that head out into the land of self-employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.  Unless you’re a...
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I spent all of Wednesday afternoon feverishly putting together an application package for a call for artists for a new cancer center.  And I spent the morning waiting anxiously for the email with the instructions! Normally this wouldn’t put me in a panic but I’d only just found out about this opportunity and the...
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It’s not exactly writer’s block – I’m just feeling a lack of a topic here!  And that in itself is a subject because it happens to all of us at some point and in all sorts of tasks.  I thought about my choices: go and eat and hope that inspiration will strike, skip this...
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For some reason the Voyager spacecraft have been popping up on my inner screen lately.  I’m old enough to remember when they were launched in 1977 and the wonder of the golden records.  The thought that anyone would even try to introduce Earth through pictures and music! A lot of the ’70s is worth...
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Have you ever known someone that wanted something for so long that when it came into reach they acted like they didn’t want it even though they still talked about obtaining it?  Like a chance at a college education or a military family finally retiring to one place or a foster kid getting adopted. It...
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Yesterday was one of those days filled with a lot of non-critical errands and tasks that all needed to get done relatively soon.  I have a lot of days like that – any particular task could get put off for a day or two without dire consequences yet they add up to become overwhelming. ...
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I love it when things come together in a way that says what I’m trying to say, but so much more effectively than I do!  I found a story today that does just that.  It’s a tale of one man, Dave Carroll,  taking a bad and frustrating experience with an airline and turning it...
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I have had a home repair project hanging over my head for the last three years.  Ignoring it not only doesn’t make it go away but is starting to make me embarrassed about the front of my house.  It started with the discovery of rot at the base of one of the columns. Since...
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“I’m giving 110%” or the more conservative ‘100%’. It’s a phrase you hear a lot – particularly in reality TV (The Apprentice, The Biggest Loser, etc.)  but what does that really mean?  Not ever sitting down? Staying until 7PM when everyone else went home at 5?I don’t think that’s it at all. In fact...
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Whether you’re in business for yourself or not there is a certain value at looking at your life as though it were a business – after all both have goals, aspirations, and interactions with people. This funny presentation may help give a new perspective on happiness and what it takes to make it happen...
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