Start Acting Like A Kid

A message from Sandy. Are you a big kid? Do you enjoy playing practical jokes or the occasional prank once in a while? Do you make a conscious decision everyday to something you enjoy? Really—don’t we take ourselves a little to seriously? When we were kids we liked to create, take risks, spend time with [...]

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EMERGING FROM HIBERNATION

A message from Terry: Winter is a time of short, cold days and long, dark nights.  Mother Nature always seems to have another trick up her sleeve, giving us plenty of incentive to just hunker down and doze, conserving energy…as we wait…for Spring…to…arrive… But there is an alternative! Shake off inertia and its old buddy, [...]

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The Leaky Umbrella of Life

A message from Sandy. The leaky umbrella—  SECURITY. Who hasn’t been the recipients of advice like this? “What if your business doesn’t work out?”  ”How are you going to send your kids to college?” “Starting a new business is nuts!” “Why take the risk?” In truth a lot of advice we get is partially accurate, [...]

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Confidence: An Inside Job

A message from Sandy.  Imagine you woke up this morning and had no expectations of yourself. No standard you had to live up to. How would that feel?  Do you think we demand so much of ourselves that our confidence suffers? Everyday we demand ourselves to feel fitter, look prettier, walk taller, be more productive, [...]

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Do You Know Where Your Sense Of Humor Is?

A message from Sandy. Not only is a sense of humor required for an enjoyable existence, but life itself seems to be nuanced with what appears to be a series of tasteless practical jokes.(on us!) There are numerous examples of this, what follows is only some of the absurdities that plague my mind. Ignorance is [...]

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Sense Of Humor–Are You Using It?

A message from Sandy. Within all of us is the potential to experience life as an adventure, or as a series of unfortunate events that lead to our eventual and unavoidable death. No one disagrees that life can be hard. Do you use your sense of humor (do you even know where it is?) to [...]

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Compassion And Kindness

A message from Sandy. Compassion and Kindness—-two very human qualities that are highly regarded. It’s probably a good idea that we develop these qualities. These attitudes are said to be excellent because they are the ideal way of conduct toward other living beings. They provide the answers to all situations, they are the great remover [...]

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Live With Intention

A message from Sandy. Some words of wisdom from the book Life Begins When You Do, by Mary Anne Radmacher. She has a famous poem: Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Laugh. Play with abandon. Practice wellness. Continue to learn. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Lead or follow a leader. Do what you [...]

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Kindness—–Care To Share

A message from Sandy. Rule #1——–Whether it is a plant, an animal, or a person: if it’s alive, it’s much more likely to thrive when you give it lots of loving attention. Rule #2 ———Isolation can be the end. What can we do to help those around us enjoy life more? These suggestions may sound [...]

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LIFE’S LITTLE PLEASURES

“Little things console us because little things afflict us.” Blaise Pascal A message from Terry: Occasionally, life serves up an earth-shaking event to delight us: a birth, a wedding, a big lottery win, a vacation to an exotic locale. More often, however, the flavor of our days is improved by much smaller phenomena: a smile, [...]

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