Communicating Like That Isn’t Any More Effective In Getting What You Want As An Adult Then It Was When You Were A Child
“I’m gonna hold my breath until you give in and give me what I want!” Now there’s a communication tactic we learned as children was never effective in getting us what we wanted. All it did was make our cheeks turn blue and give us a pounding headache. Never once did it actually get us […]
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What I Learned From Losing
Dalton Anderson checking in for the ol’ Mama Bear. Not that my mom is old, but since she’s a grandma and all I guess it wouldn’t be true to say she’s young either ;). Instead of digging myself a grave, I’d like to share a story of what happened this weekend. My two brother-in-laws play […]
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Maybe They Really Are Using You. Do Good Anyway.
I’m sure I’ve probably posted this particular poem before, but it kept going through my mind today and given that I always try to let my blog reflect something I learned that day I decided to share it again: ANYWAY People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people […]
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Combating The Winter Blues
I personally find the months after Christmas and before Spring starts tend to bring people down – it could be the lack of sunshine, or the miserably cold weather, or the ice covered slippery roads, or the cold and flu…this time of year it’s just really easy to feel a little down. At least it […]
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Rethinking Your Stress
It was sometime in the 1990’s when I first came across a PBS special where a woman was speaking in in a stand-up comedy routine sort of way on The Joy of Stress. Almost immediately I began laughing out loud listening to her as she described in the most entertaining way the self-defeating thoughts and […]
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Do You Consider Yourself To Be Lucky?
Do you consider yourself to be a lucky person? Well, it turns out your answer to that question actually plays a significant role in whether or not you’ll actually end up having good luck in your life. And what better month to ask that question then March, when the luck of the Irish is upon […]
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Happy Inconvenience Yourself Day!
I just learned that February 28th is “Inconvenience Yourself Day”, a day that is celebrated on the fourth Wednesday in February each year. When I heard about it my first thought was, “Why would anyone want to have a day where they inconvenience themselves on purpose?” So I decided to look it up and see […]
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Every Song Begins With A Blank Page
“Every song begins with a blank page.” – Pasek & Paul This evening I had the incredible opportunity to go and hear Pasek & Paul, songwriters of The Greatest Showman movie, speak and perform at Utah Valley University ( UVU ). Now I was a HUGE fan of The Greatest Showman movie and soundtrack already, […]
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We Can’t Control The Filters That Others Choose When They Look At Us
“We can’t control the filters that others choose when they look at us.” –Rachel Wolchin In the teenage years we tend to put tremendous focus on what others think of us and we often allow our self-worth to become dictated by what others think of us. Whether it’s having the person you like like you […]
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You’ll Know It When You Find It
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love…Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly […]
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What Will Matter
Sometimes you read something that says what you are thinking more perfectly than you could say it yourself – that’s how I felt when I read this poem by Michael Josephson, whom I had never heard of until someone showed me this poem , but I like the message of his poem so much I’m […]
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Stop Being A Worrier And Start Being A Warrior!
“Stop being a worrier and start being a warrior!” – unknown I lost several weeks of productivity when I was down sick with the flu the last few weeks. It put me so behind on everything that I found myself worrying to no end over how I will possibly catch back up again. and worrying […]
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Go Back In Time And Be There For One Of The Greatest Moments In History
Can you imagine what it would be like to go back in time and be there when the Founding Fathers were developing the U.S. Constitution? How amazing would that be! Unfortunately, Elon Musk hasn’t yet tackled time travel (although if anyone had the brain power to figure that out it would probably be him!). But […]
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Don’t Lose Faith In Who You Are
“Don’t lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.” – George Bernard Shaw I love that […]
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It’s Hilarious Because We All Wish We Could React This Honestly When We Don’t Like Something!
I have to caveat today’s post by saying that I try really hard not to be one of those people who posts a million photos/videos of their grandchildren thinking everyone else is as excited about seeing them as they are….And honestly if this short 35 second video clip was not one of the FUNNIEST things […]
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Was It A Bad Day? Or Was It A Bad Five Minutes You Milked All Day
“Was it a bad day? Or was it a bad five minutes you milked all day.” – unknown Boy that question really hits ya doesn’t it? Because we’ve all done that before – we’ve had something bad happen during our day and we then allowed it to become the focus of the rest of our […]
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My Public Service Reminder – It’s almost Valentine’s Day!
“To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.” –unknown Today is my friendly public service reminder that Valentine’s Day is this Wednesday! And to any of you who have a significant other in your life, no matter how many times they tell […]
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If You’re Beat Up, Don’t Give Up. Rest Up. Then Get Up.
“If you’re beat up, don’t give up. Rest up. Then get up.” -Tristan Bishop I’ve never been one to accept that there are limits on what we are capable of doing. I have always been one to attempt to do more, to go beyond, to push through, and to at the very least try to […]
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Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever, but what the heck are you supposed to do when you have both?!
Forever people have said, “Feed a cold, starve a fever.” So all I want to know is what the heck you are supposed to do when you have both?! Being sick is the pits! And according to the news there are a whole bunch of people painfully aware of how miserable it is to be […]
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Woman Sick Versus Man Sick
In yesterday’s blog I shared how sick I was feeling, and today, unfortunately, I wasn’t feeling any better. But as much as I would have LOVED to stay in bed sleeping all day that just wasn’t an option as there were things I had no choice but to get done, sick or not. So as […]
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When #SuperSickMonday Turns Into Actually Sick Tuesday
Fun fact: The day after the Super Bowl is apparently dubbed ‘Super Sick Monday’ because of the incredibly high number of people that call into work sick because they want to stay home and recover from their late-night Super Bowl celebrations. We aren’t just talking a few people, in fact a survey performed by Kronos […]
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Appreciate the Excitement that comes from the Anticipation
We all wish we could have certainty life because it takes the fear out of things if we already know what is going to happen. But last night I was reminded that knowing the ending also takes that excitement and anticipation that comes from not knowing. As much as we think we want to know […]
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It’s the things that take the most effort in life that end up meaning the very most
22 years ago today, February 5th , my baby girl Ashley was born. Ashley was as beautiful as any baby could be. You see, most babies come out with their heads looking a bit odd shaped and their faces a little swollen, but not Ashley. That’s because while I was in labor giving birth to her, […]
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Bitter or Better – It’s A Choice
Liz Murray grew up with parents who were both cocaine addicts. Her family ran out of food a few days into each month because her parents spent their welfare checks on feeding their drug addiction instead of feeding her and her sister. So as young girls she and her sister would go from door to […]
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Turning Weakness Into Strength
We were all born with our own unique challenges. Some physical, some mental, some circumstantial. Some all of the above. But those challenges we were born with were never meant to hold us back, in fact, they were meant to help us become strong in the areas we would most need to be in order […]
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If We Want To Bring Our Country Together Invite Someone Home For Dinner
Monday evening my husband and I were privileged to get to hear former Dallas Chief of Police, David Brown speak. He spoke to us about a specific event that took place during his tenure as Police Chief back on July 7, 2016, when 5 of his police officers were shot and killed by a sniper […]
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Just Think Of The Things You Are Glad That You’re Not
When my luck seems all gone, and I’m down in the mouth, When I’m stuck in the north and I want to go south; When the world seems a blank and there’s no one to love, And it seems even God’s not in heaven above. I’ve a cure for my grouch and it works like […]
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Come What May, And Love It
Years ago someone gave me a little plate that reads, “Come what may, and love it.” It is a quote that came from a fantastic story told by a man named Joseph B Wirthlin in a talk titled the same in which he shared: “When I was young I loved playing sports, and I have […]
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Stop and think of all the people to whom your actions have special significance
Tonight I was reading through some of my Grandmother’s old papers and I came across a talk she had written long ago. In this talk she discusses how people (especially young people) commonly say “What I do with my life is my own business and concerns no one else.” She points out that those who […]
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“It Ain’t About How Hard You Hit, It’s About How Hard You Can Get Hit And Keep Moving Forward.”
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard […]
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