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Part 1: How to Recognize an Idea Worth Pursuing

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Ideas into Action - and writing in the sand

This article is part of a 3-series. Go here for Part 2 and Part 3.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has them. Things we should do; things we should stop doing. Or things we could be doing, creating, producing, changing, enhancing, trying, living, or just dreaming. It does not take a special person to think of ideas. Even little kiddies have ideas — mostly bad ones with consequence but they do have ideas.

A healthy, functioning brain and body has thoughts, desires, opinions, aspirations, and oh yes, emotions. The thought of going through a day without a single idea is unimaginable to me. I have a hard time keeping track of mine, and you know what? [Read more…] about Part 1: How to Recognize an Idea Worth Pursuing

The Whispers of the Pacific Ocean

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Pacific Ocean Waves

It felt as though I was gazing at the Pacific Ocean for the first time and not the 50th time. Few things preserve the true likeness to that first time experience as well as greeting the Pacific ocean.

I had walked in the chill of Southern California morning air with clear intent to photograph the ocean, only to fall to my knees and stare in a stupor at the glorious view upon arrival. Calm and quiet waters, slow and steady waves, I felt as though I could meditate forever simply by looking at this vastness that is before me. How splendid the feeling that everything stops to matter in the grand scheme of things, if only for a few delicious minutes. I was feeling light and heavy, free and chained, loved and lost. Time was slowing down and disappearing into the magnificent morning light, into the breeze and into the crashing waves.

I was at the mercy of this overwhelming feeling and I loved it. [Read more…] about The Whispers of the Pacific Ocean

2010 Year-End Review in Relevance to You

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Splashing water in Las Vegas

So it is December again, another year bidding us a swift goodbye when we are just starting to like the sound of it. Ready or not, like it or not, in the cold of the night (except for you lucky souls on an island or in the southern hemisphere), we switch over to a new year. Every year, I would hold a ritual not uncommon to a million others; I would write down (with a pen on paper in a notebook, remember those?) my year-long deep reflections and promises of command performance for the new year.

This year is different, a massively better kind of different. [Read more…] about 2010 Year-End Review in Relevance to You

Top 65 Quotes on Making the Choice about Children

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Thank you to my readers

The incredible response to my last post has seriously thrown off my focus and made it nearly impossible to move on. I have written and re-written several drafts of fresh new posts – highlights from travels to Switzerland and Berlin, visits to authentic tea shops and seeing the breath-taking 3000-year old Nefertiti bust – only to set every draft aside unfinished. I took the weekend off and spent it in Seattle to refresh my thoughts and clear my mind, to absolutely no avail! It has taken all my emotional energy to consume and respond in kind to the out pour of my reader feedback on a subject that no doubt struck a chord with more than a few of us.

I haven’t the words to thank you for sharing your stories, offering your insights, asking me the tough questions and leaving the choice with resounding confidence in my hands.

The only thing that felt right following 40,000 plus words of conversation in 206 comments was to follow with a thank you. [Read more…] about Top 65 Quotes on Making the Choice about Children

Keys to Total Bliss: Fusion of 8 Self-Improvement Habits

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The day that I stop improving upon the self is the day that I stop living.

On a Rock in the Ocean in Hawaii

My problem has never been the lack of motivation in improving myself. I find myself drawn to self-improvement as bees to flowers or water to shore. No, my problem is bigger. It is the ever-present overwhelming feeling of just how in this world and life am I going to sufficiently improve upon myself. It is an obsession with self-improvement in more ways than I can possibly make time and effort to pursue. It is a sense of urgency to embrace life in its fullest and to be in my most ready form to do so – and for that, I need to living and breathing the better version of myself every passing day. [Read more…] about Keys to Total Bliss: Fusion of 8 Self-Improvement Habits

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