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What is Your Ugly Story?
What is your ugly story? Oh, I know you have one. We all have at least one. For some of us we collect ugly stories. My ugly story tells a moment in my life when I was lost and hurting and I did something that I feel deep guilt over. I have more than one, but that is the basic outline of EVERY singly one. What is the outline to your ugly story? We carry t…
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Taking a Break?
"Taking a Break" by Ian Livesey is licensed under CC PDM 1.0 Are you considering taking a break? Are you currently on break? I took a break. And I learned a lesson. I can't take a break from certain things. I can change focus or change the activity, but I can't take a break. I took a break from my diet and my brain heard that I was taking a…
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What is wrong with you?
You are stupid. You are fat. You are inadequate. You are ugly. Look at your chin. You will never be enough... What is wrong with you? I am sure you have a really long list. You tell your loved ones that you hate your belly. You talk to your friends about how awful your hair is. Amongst your friends, it's basically a challenge to see how much you hate y…
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Time to Take Inventory
If you aren't aware, Spring Cleaning is one of my favorite things. I wrote about it here . Everything that applies to Spring Cleaning applies to the Fall. Working with that though, we are drawing to an end for the year. If you stop now and take inventory, are there ways that you can achieve your goals for this year? Are there ways that you can end the yea…
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Stories We Tell Ourselves
Now let’s take a look at the stories we tell ourselves. I told myself that I could not run. Over and over again. It doesn’t matter that I had proof. It doesn’t matter if you have proof. It’s still a story I told myself. I am currently running 16 miles a week and that increases each week as I train for my first marathon. I had to tell myself a different stor…
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Working with color
There are subtle ways in which we manipulate our environment to support our intentions. You might use a fragrance to bring energy. You might where a power color like the classic red tie or blazer. You might listen to music that pumps you up. If we can create an environment that supports our best selves, we should strive towards achieving that. If, and only if…
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Help with your Path
So in The 12 Week Year there is a bit of talk about lag and lead measures. Lag measures are the results of what you want. These are your goals. For example, I want to lose 20 pounds. The results lag behind the actions that you take to make them happen. You lead with activities that make the lag measures happen. In our example, your lead measure might be to s…
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Consider Making Life an Ally
"In a scene that captures the heart of the Vedic attitude towards plants, a doctor prepares to treat someone who is seriously ill. After meditating on 107 healing herbs, the doctor blesses them and then blesses the patient. The doctor praises him 'in whom the plants gather like kings in the assembly' and expresses his hope that 'the plants have dr…
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