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flawsome: (adjective) an individual who embraces their “flaws” and knows they are awesome regardless. The human condition is flawed. We may like to think we’re alright, OK or even nearing perfection. We might even think we’re Ideal or Right. That we have the correct...
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I’ve been working with people experiencing a transition period for many years. Everything around each of us is in a constant state of flux, to one degree or another. Especially the things we believe are fixed. And, yet, I frequently forget that change is the most...
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In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt made his inaugural address, and has famously been misquoted from: … let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself … The world we live in is a place fraught with uncertainty, about what will happen...
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Recent meetings, conversations and influences have pointed me towards the power and importance of living by a conscious set of choices, constructed on a foundation or basis of a strategy. Someone recently pointed to my being “like a rosebud, with a (self-imposed)...
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From personal experience, it’s easy to dwell in the basement of living. No matter how good it gets, how life becomes the dream, safe and wonder-filled, the basement can always kick in and take over. In the basement lives all the perceived truth about the fears, the...
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There’s a recommendation to write when raw, skinned alive by circumstance and the slings and arrows of life. To unload and unburden when there’s nothing to lose. Today, I choose to unload and to see what’s away inside that drowns my sense of wonder; that derails the...
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When wisdom was lost, knowledge was found When knowledge was lost, information was found When information was lost, data was found… This saying reflects much of my recent thinking. I observe what appears an addiction going on in the world around me that’s very set on...
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On reflection, I see that I’ve grown up with preconceived biases and beliefs, familial blinkers and truths. These confused me. I’ve felt neither good enough nor smart enough to be effective in life. And that, my dear reader, is about shame and feeling ashamed. Brene...
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It’s quite simple, we are not all the same. Some of us naturally feel something is missing in our lives. And, no matter what anyone says about the rest of life, this feels to be a truth. One that cannot be denied. How do I know this? Because I have personal,...
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Awareness Week, is an annual Dying Matters initiative: “Every year in May, Dying Matters and our coalition members host an Awareness Week, which gives us an unparalleled opportunity to place the importance of talking about dying, death and bereavement firmly on the...
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