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Horizons 4 – Future
I find this horizon the most exciting. Every day at sunset there is a moment, just after the sun disappears that there is a glow of hope what rebounds for a minute or so. I connect this with tomorrow...
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What Do You Do With Leftovers?
When you prepare a big meal or buy too much takeout what do you do with the leftovers? Are you diligent in making sure that the last piece of chicken and broccoli gets eaten? Do you just toss them...
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1 Event That Will Help You Expand Your Readership: Meet and Greet
Bob McInnis:Thanks for all the connections. Originally posted on Dream Big, Dream Often: What day is it??!! Meet and Greet Day! Ok so here are the rules: Leave a link to your page or post in the...
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My Morning Routine and One More Thing
I routinely resisted routine for years feeling it was a handcuff that reduced or possibly eliminated creativity. Just over a year ago, I began a practice that has turned into a habit. I wake at just...
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Impatience
I usually believe that impatience is a virtue. It fits with my severe action bias and imperfectionist tendencies. I usually feel that patience means inaction and that it ensures that important stuff...
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Value Relationships
Of all the things that I take for granted, I can be oblivious to those caring, special people that make up my circle. In my struggle yesterday there were dozens who reached out with a call, a text, an...
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Little Black Dress or Classic Blue Blazer
What is essential in your wardrobe? The blue blazer and black shoes may have become passe or may still be stylin’ – I’m not sure. I couldn’t tell you if you need a Katherine Hepburn little black dress...
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Saturday Morning
Most Saturdays when we are home I have a few responsibilities; laundry, bedding vacuuming and some grocery shopping. I cam do all of them, not really well but they do get done and I can move on. I...
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Rest
For many people I know, rest is elusive. They run from early morning to late night trying to complete a long list of tasks that someone else created. Or they lay down and turn on their worrier and...
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Family Day
CASAColumbia® Family Day was launched in 2001 by CASAColumbia.Family Day is a national movement to celebrate parental engagement as an effective tool to help keep America’s kids substance free. I love...
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Is Disappointment a Valid Expression?
I realized this morning that I used the word disappointment in three different conversations over the last three days, I felt that my expectations in three completely different situations had not been...
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Apps for Hacking Your life
I was working with a client on Monday morning and recommending some apps that I use on my Android ; RunKeeper, Noom Coach, Domingo and Coach.me and realized that these tools help me be successful in...
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The Biggest Challenge
The biggest challenge I see in my future, both today and 25 years from now is listening. In order to make a difference, live ethically and encourage hope, I need to listen, globally. There is so much...
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One Thing at a Time
I saw a placard recently that said ” No Christmas Decorations before December 1″. October 2nd with Canadian Thanksgiving, Halloween, American Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day ahead of us this seemed...
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Inspiration
Last night we had the privilege of hearing Emma Hooper @waitress4thebees read from her novel ” Etta, Otto, Russell and James” (EOR&J)at Calgary Reads Big Book Club (BBC). I was given the...
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Apathy
I usually keep apathy at bay. She rears her head in the face of tragedy when I feel insignificant. He claws at my legs when everything seems out of my control. It drills into my brain when I listen to...
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Going Through the Motions
Lethargy, inertia, torpor, indolence, lassitude, listlessness… – there seems to be a lot of words to describe waning motivation. Maybe it is health; low iron, low blood sugar, or illness. Maybe it is...
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What to Do in your 40’s
If I knew then what I know now (or think I know) I would have done some things differently (maybe). This isn’t regrets (I have a few, but then again too few to mention). This is about offering...
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Helping libraries start with why
Bob McInnis:Thanks Michael Originally posted on Michael Watts: Last week I was due to talk to a group of staff from a number of libraries across south east London about how my team believe that...
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Self Portaiture
The vanities of the selfies, even those who practice with utmost humility, is boundless. (a complete paraphrase /ripoff of Eric Hoffer) Technology is not doubt changing our world. It is reducing...
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