In celebration of my 10-month-blog-anniversary, I’ve decided to do a Best Of post. This is also a great place to start if you are new around here & looking to get a taste of the most delicious bits without having to sift wildly through the…
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5 Tips for Focusing & My Mini Meltdown
Read more“When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat.” –Robert Cheruiyot The antelope knows how to focus. That’s what this post is about–focus. Last Sunday I had a meltdown. I was tired. In the past few weeks, I’ve gone…
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3 Super Simple Ways to Reduce Stress, Improve Health, & Live Happy
Read moreWant to know how you can cut your stress in half? How about if there were two things you could change that would drastically alter your stress levels for the rest of your life? Now I bet you really want to know, right? What if…
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Hakuna Matata: 8 Lessons I Learned in Kenya
Read moreThe Adventure Begins I was taking a required elective, World Geography, during my senior year of college. If it hadn’t been for that elective, I would have never been in the Science Building at all. (I was an English Major with a Creative Writing focus.)…
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Review: Tribes by Seth Godin
Read moreOn a recent flight, I began reading Seth Godin’s Tribes. On the return flight, I finished it. It was my introduction to Seth Godin—no idea why I hadn’t found him sooner!—and what an introduction it was. The book blew me away. It is the best…
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Let Go of Your Goals & Unleash Your Dreams
Read moreDreams are Just as Important as Goals I’ve written quite a bit about setting & accomplishing goals; overcoming fears; and making the best out of difficult situations. But what I haven’t written enough about is flat out—unleashing your dreams. Goal setting is a very mathematical…
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The Journey
Read moreby Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each…
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An Unexpected Encounter
Read moreI had an interesting encounter at the nail salon earlier this week. The salon owners are long-time family friends — a gorgeous Vietnamese couple with two beautiful children. The nail technicians there are also Vietnamese; however unlike the owners, their English is very poor and…
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Minimalism: How to Declutter Your Home & Your Soul
Read moremin·i·mal·ism (mĭn’ə-mə-lĭz’əm) n. Use of the fewest and barest essentials or elements, as in the arts, literature, or design. How Did I Get Here? My life was moving in the right direction. I was moving toward the life of my dreams, paying down my debts,…