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  • CRAFTING YOUR QUEST When last we met, I had been asking ChatGPT for advice on being my own guide, my own inner wizard a la Gandalph The Grey–and ChatGPT really came through for me! “Embark on Your Own Hero’s Journey: Becoming Your Own Inner Guide“ The first step was: Craft Your Quest Tracy and I…

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  • In the book “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” by John Green and David Levithan, one of the Wills asks Jane (whom he likes) to agree to be completely honest with each other and not worry about feelings for 10 minutes and then to go back to “normal.” I want you to do the same thing–I’m doing…

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  • Good Grief

    “Oh, good grief!” When I was younger my mom (and Charlie Brown) would say this a lot, it expressed much frustration and possibly the end of any kind of patience. In other words, it was not a good thing to hear these words. Now, I think of those words: “good grief” and have a new…

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  • I have a plethora of written material spread over numerous notebooks (paper and digital). Most of it should not be shared, but I’ve decided that if I see something that might help someone else take a step forward (and at the same time, to remind myself to take that same step) that I’ll share it.…

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  • LOVE BRAVELY

    I was invited to a Bridal Shower. I had the gifts and the card, all I needed was something other than last years Christmas wrapping aka a gift bag. Have I ever told you how I hate to spend too much on things that might get thrown away? Like 7.99 on a birthday card…I don’t…

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  • I accidentally drove past my childhood home this past weekend and it was tiiiiiiiny! I mean it was a normal sized house, just not the size I remember. And the vast side yard? A quarter of the size I remember. There were still pine trees in the front yard but the lower branches had been…

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  • An (in)Elegant Life

    An (in)Elegant Life

    How often do you feel like a 7 year old? Let me be more specific, how often do you live with the metaphorical feeling of your socks balled up in your shoes just living with the uncomfortableness of it? How often do we live in the uncomfortableness of a situation? Job? Relationship? It’s okay, you…

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  •   Or, what comes after affirmations… We love to talk, right? we love to talk about ourselves and our ideas, our childhoods and all the horrors (imagined or real) of that, we love to talk about all the things we want to do in our lifetime. We. Love. To. Talk. Talk, talk, talk… But, I’m…

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  • Thinking As If…

    Are you afraid of how great the thing you want to do would be if you actually did it? Does just thinking about it scare you? Aren’t we hilarious–oooh, I’d like to do that, I think I might even be great at that…or, you know, maybe okay at it…I mean, I wouldn’t even know how…

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  • Skoal! Goals!

    Do you use the Amy Method of setting and achieving goals? Not sure? Let’s test it: Decide setting goals is the way to go, because, A goal without a plan is just a dream, is a wicked cool quote even though it doesn’t quite fit…but you figure the first step is a realio-trulio goal. Decide…

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