“It’s not your job to love me, it’s mine” – Unknown So I grew up with three sisters. One older and two younger. For most of my life I had people telling me, “You must be spoiled”, and for years I never understood what they meant. Then as I got older, I began to understand […]
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“In any given moment we have two options: To step forward into growth or step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow I will never forget the journey my now eighteen year old daughter Niala took me through while first learning how to swim. Initially it was fun. There was the “daddy and me”
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“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless when facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore As a teacher and counselor in my former church, I was regularly helping others and giving advice to people who needed to talk or discuss their issues. Since being a giver has always been a part of
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“Freedom isn’t going through life unscathed, It’s choosing to not let what has hurt you bind you.” – Leo Christopher To finally come to an understanding that I will never stop growing has brought a sense a of peace, calm and self-acceptance to my life. When I consider who I use to be, (not that
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“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” – Edmunds Lee Whenever I reach a milestone I tend to reflect on my future, my past and where I am today.
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have to enough, and more.” – Melody Beattie Today was a very different day for me. As I am writing this post I am sitting in the window seat of airplane heading back home to California from New Orleans, where I have just
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I have found that growing up means being honest about what I want, what I need, and who I am. – Epiphany Just last week I decided to take some time off to work in my yard. You know, plant a few flowers, trim down some hedges and pull a few weeds. The kind of
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“It’s never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot Perhaps you are not into watching professional fights on the big screen, but I grew up watching Muhammed Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard take on big fights with much anticipation and hype. I will even admit that I had a
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“Believe that your best life is still yet to come, and you will live a different and better life” – Henry G. Nutt, III We live in a day an age where negative news bombards every media outlet known to man. There is simply no escaping it. I just witnessed a mother beating
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“Sometimes we have to stop being so giving to others, because in the process we end up destroying the part of us that needs to be giving to ourselves.” – r.g. moon Are you that busy type that seems to get uncomfortable when there is nothing to do, no one to help or situation to
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