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Acceptance

April 1, 2010
Acceptance

The first step to anything is knowing where you are starting from.  Personal growth is no different.  Are you open to learning to see yourself as you are? Without worrying about the gap between you and who you’d rather be? Technorati Tags: self acceptance, self-perception
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The No Excuses Project: Making room for romance

March 31, 2010

So how am I going to going to solve this one? I’m not entirely sure. Leaving it at ‘I have no idea’ is just another excuse so I’ll keep pressing on. The experts say when you’re stuck on how to proceed to look to something you solved successfully in the past and try the...
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A lesson in self-identity from the U.S. Census

March 30, 2010
A lesson in self-identity from the U.S. Census

I don’t answer questions about race. I simply don’t identify myself or others that way. I wrote my college entrance essay on that topic more than 20 years ago and haven’t changed my mind since – even though the U.S. government hasn’t either. For awhile it seemed like we were making progress in moving...
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The case against missionaries

February 9, 2010

Connections with who and where we come from are some of the most powerful on Earth
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There are all kinds of ways to stand out

December 28, 2009
There are all kinds of ways to stand out

Taken in pieces there really isn’t anything that outstanding about this camellia flower – it’s doesn’t have an unusual color or shape or even number of petals.  It’s not particularly small or really gigantic and yet somehow it commands attention. Do you view yourself in terms of the pieces or the overall? Camellia, Juliet Chase,...
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The No Excuses Project: ‘My perception is skewed’

December 23, 2009

I would liken this excuse to being suddenly blind and deciding to sit in the same spot until either you could see again or magically become confident that you would never bump into a wall.  Just because I see the fallacy in the argument doesn’t mean I haven’t used it! A belief that you...
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5 tips on how and when to label yourself

September 17, 2009

Labels are tricky things.  The world might well be a better place without them, however conversations would drag on forever. If you’ve ever watched someone converse in sign language you may have seen them spell a person’s name letter by letter and then create a spacial reference point so that they can refer to...
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Subtle synchronicity

April 3, 2009
Subtle synchronicity

I suspect that the last day of March is going to turn out to be a pivotal one for me.  In trying to follow my own advice on problem solving, I was researching in the ‘people also bought this’ section of Amazon for potential expertise. I saved off a couple of interesting books, one...
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