Tag: motivation

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  What are you going to “do” with it?

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  art, books, faith, inspiration, life strategy, motivation, personal development, spiritual psychology, travel, writing

  Every time I hear somebody ask what they’re going to “do” with something, I think of this clever dialogue between Arthur Siegel (a lawyer) and Mark Forman (a columnist), characters the in the Nora Ephron movie (one of my favorites) based on her book, Heartburn . Arthur: “What can I say? I’ve always been terrible with colors. It comes from having…

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  So you’re a fuck-up

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  fitness, inspiration, life strategy, motivation, personal development, transformation coaching

  Guess what? WE ALL ARE. Some people just don’t know it yet. Some never will. Contrary to popular belief, it’s been laid on my heart that being open to fucking things up is a positive thing because it means you’re doing this thing. You’re in it. You’re working it. You’re willing to fail, look stupid,…

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  The “soft animal of your body”

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  faith, geese, inspiration, mary-oliver, motivation, nature, poem, poetry, spirit

  I watched in awe a few weeks ago as wild geese flew daily over my dog Finn and I on our morning walk, loudly honking their presence and sending Finn into a barking frenzy of frustration, running in fastdogfastdog mode across the field, believing he could somehow reach them. We both have a tendency to…