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50 Ways to Open Your World to New Possibilities – part 1
by Lori Deschene “To get something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” ~Unknown Maybe you feel stuck. Or bored. Or frustrated. It’s not that you don’t like the life you live, it’s just that you suspect there’s something more. Some greater sense of meaning or excitement. New connections. New adventures. […]
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We Are Both Speaking English, Aren’t We?
Do you ever find yourself explaining something to someone and when you’ve finished speaking they look at you as if you’d just rattled off something in fluent Japanese? So, you start over, doing your best to explain it so that they understand you, yet you still get that baffled look? Then you resort to speaking […]
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What Do You Have That Nothing & No One Can Take Away?
by Lori Deschene Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with. ~Peter Elbow I’d gotten these bed-raiser platforms to make my twin seem less sad like being higher from the ground made it more respectable. It wasn’t even its size that made it seem pathetic; it was more that it […]
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Do Happy: Take a Small Step
by Lori Deschene “I could never make a living while traveling the world; it’s just not realistic.” “My guitar won’t pay the bills. People think I’m crazy for trying.” “I don’t have the money to go back to school. I’m stuck in this dead-end temp job.” Most people dream of doing something that gives them […]
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Do Happy: Interpret Differently
by Lori Deschene Research indicates lottery winners are no happier than people who didn’t win, and in many cases, become depressed in the years following their win. Scientists have surmised that we all have a baseline level of happiness—a range of joy we’ll stay within regardless of our external circumstances. The greatest factor in determining […]