When you make up your mind to do something, like it or not: All barriers make way for you. All change becomes a matter of time and effort. All difficulties become possibilities. All excuses vanish into thin air. All fears begin to fear you. All temptation melts away. All things become accessible. In that precise [...]
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For the last 3 weeks, I have focused on little else other than the upcoming speech at Blogworld. It was an honor to be accepted, after submitting this video proposal. As with all things, however, after the excitement calms down and the dust settles, you are left with real work to do and in this [...]
How much of human life is lost in waiting? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The hours of waiting are the hardest hours to bear. The hours when an unknown is brewing in the horizon somewhere, when you are not in charge, and yet you expend massive time and energy worrying and wondering about all the possible outcomes. [...]
What Guilty Feeling? The guilty feeling is the uneasy, unsettling, not-good-enough feeling at the pit of our stomach when we fall short of delivering on all the promises that we made to ourselves – never mind that we made far too many unrealistic ones to begin with. Guilt, the type which follows no crime, no [...]
How well do you handle your interactions with customer support? Yesterday, an AT&T rep of all people put me in my place. I was completely out of line when I said she was not doing anything to help me. She was. I was also wrong when I told her it’s nearly impossible to isolate an [...]
When a single word brings you to a dead stop in your tracks, when a quote resonates so deeply with your thoughts that time gently slows down around you, when a book speaks to you so strongly you want to devour it in one big bite, take it as a good sign! It means you [...]
Why do clumsy accidents happen to good people? This morning at 5am, I am standing at the expert traveler security line (the TSA‘s fancy privilege for frequent air travelers – and of course I consider myself one but read on for the irony). One wrong move in my haste to get through the security X-rays [...]
The Problem with Balance Seek balance in all things you do in life. This is the well-known and often-heard universal advice to many challenges and problems in life. Experts constantly encourage us to do all things in balance. Corporate life encourages a life-work balance attitude (as though work is not part of life, but maybe [...]
One look at the beautiful photograph of Kathyn Budig in a gorgeous yoga pose on the wall of a studio and I instantly knew that this workshop had my name written all over it. My name. My heart. My soul. My very core. My yoga teacher Vickie tells me yoga is not just about the [...]
This is the 100th Blog Post on Prolific Living and I decided to celebrate this milestone with reflection and joy. In celebration, I have compiled a list of my 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging in 2009. The theme of this experience which most resonates with me is the constant learning. And learning not limited to [...]
