Category: Do The Hard Thing
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An adventure to pursue
Hide from edges. Ignore the gaps turn away and act like you’re just fine. You don’t need to grow. You’re just fine without a harvest. You don’t need to produce like others do. It’s fine for them – but you’re fine. Just fine. Even if I yell it – it’s no longer true. Somehow fine…
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Identify the gaps: Envy
Check out the previous posts on recurring conversations and pain points as well as the introduction to the series. In the past, my tendency was to see an edge in the distance and to do a 180 degree turn in the opposite direction. It didn’t matter if going in the other direction was taking me…
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Identify the Gaps: Pain Points
This post is a continuation of this blog post about walking to the edges and naming the gaps in our lives. If you haven’t read it you might want to read it first and then come back to this post! In the past, my tendency was to see an edge in the distance and to…
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Momentum begins at the edge.
Who you are. Who you want to be. Where you are Where you want to be. There’s some gaps here for me – and for you. It’s just not something we talk about…ever. See, each of us are a work-in-progress. There’s not one of us who has arrived and that fact should not make us…
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So That I Can Run Like I Am Meant To
My dog wants to go outside – in the worst way. She sits at the open back door. Waiting. For an invitation. For company. Every part of her indicates her desire to go outside. She does a little dance due to her urge to run. Her tail demonstrates her desire to chase the squirrels. Her…
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Where Dreaming Is Like Breathing
*This is a guest post by Erica Douglas. She is an encourager of girls and their dreams and for that reason alone she is one of my favorite people. Here is a taste of her work. Do you have a preteen, teen or do you know a coach that could be encouraged by Erica’s work?…
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Have you seen Audacity? Send her my way, please.
Goals. I think they are for other people. Or just not for me. Not the big ones, anyway. I get excited when I cross something off my list for the day… I see others accomplishing big audacious things And I think to myself… “I wish that was me.” Or “Why do they get to do…
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The imperfect of it all makes it hard to breathe.
The imperfect of it all makes it hard to breathe. The tangle of should and my own expectations leaves me disenchanted and trapped in wishes. The wishes are light but strong and form a web that gives the illusion of structure of safety of purpose. One wrong turn and what I thought was giving structure…
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Savoring the place where you are.
Savor. Right now I am savoring the sun that is playing peekaboo with the clouds. After Hurricane Michael came through last night I can’t help but soak up the sun. I am savoring the crunch of leaves and and the fact that chili is now a great option for dinner. I am savoring the the laughs…
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Let go. Take part in the dance.
The leaves carpet the ground. A walk across the yard yields a satisfying crunch. The leaves release their grip on the branches as they are supposed to. Their free-fall to the ground is an intentional, choreographed dance. A dance that is part of the cycle of bringing forth new. Their decay feeds the earth and…
