Tag: blog
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Speaking the Words of Your Dreams: On Being Honest With Myself About Changing Careers
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This blog has been such a journey of learning to speak the words of my dreams. It strikes me that even the choice of the name, Welcoming Spirit, was the open invitation for change and love and spirit to enter my life after my divorce eight years ago. And since…
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Three Wedding Cakes: One for the Bride, One for the Groom, One for Our Son
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Our wedding last month was gorgeous and wonderful. We have plenty of photos to show you from our wedding photographer (check out this Rhode Island wedding photography firm if you’re looking for a similar photographer to ours in the Rhode Island area), so get ready to be inundated with snaps!…
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A Sneak Peek of Our Coastal Wedding in Northern California
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Three weeks ago, Sean and I got married. We chose a little town, up on the coast for the location. It’s a place we love, a place we visit a lot. We had 30 guests, eight of whom were age seven and under. It was perfect. Such dear family and…
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A Recap on the Balance Retreat
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Saturday was one of those wonderful, life affirming days. We had a large group of participants, so many participants! There was a point during the day, when leading one of the sessions, that I felt so fully present and engaged. So in the moment, and so full of gratitude to…
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Excuse Busting: Two Reasons I Make Excuses
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Over the last week I’ve thought a lot about excuses, still, since my time on CreativeLive with Michelle. It’s made me really get mindful about excuses when I hear them come up in my subconscious. On CreativeLive with Michelle Ward in her amazing “Create Your Dream Career” course Why am…
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Free Wallpaper Download: Excuses Rob Us Of Possibilities in the Future
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Embracing my new found title of “The Excuse Buster,” I tweeted this quote … “Excuses Rob Us of Possibilities in the Future.” It came to me after writing my last post. I paired it with a photo of a passionflower on a cement floor. Hardy and gorgeous, the passionflower grows…
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The Excuse Buster! Learning to Live Past the Excuses and Why I do It
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Tomorrow I get to wake up, put on a dress and a new sweater and go be on CreateLive with Michelle Ward as part of her “Create Your Dream Career” course. She’s bringing me on to talk about being an “Excuse Buster,” which surely fits me. I don’t know what…
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The Dream is Free, The Hustle is Sold Separately: The Recession is Bullhonkey with The When I Grow Up Coach
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Today I’m pretty excited because I have a little guest post action going on over at Michelle’s blog. She has a cool series she calls “The Recession is Bullhonkey,” and in today’s post I share a bit about my job journey over the last few years. Here’s my post. It…
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About My Last Year in a Terrible Job or Why I Left Advertising
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In the book Abundant Simplicity by Jan Johnson, I discovered a quote that hit home pretty hard for me. “Marketing folks have identified the masters we don’t even know we are serving. ‘Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and by…