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What I Do for Love

“Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.” — Reverend Oliver G. Wilson Tell me about something you love to do but aren’t necessarily good at. Tell me about this activity in detail so I can love it as much as […]

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Working with Fear

“Nothing can happen to you that is worse than living in fear that something could happen to you.” —Unknown What are you afraid of? Begin with the words, “I’m afraid…”. Complete the rest of the sentence in as many ways as you can, without thinking, without stopping.

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Writing Into Light

“Writing begins from a rant, but it doesn’t end there. You write until the writing brings you to a place of light. You have to travel through the rant to the light. . . . When I was younger, I did a lot of ranting. But ranting is uncomposted writing. No one wants to accept

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The Silver Lining

“What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.” —Unknown Tell me about a time when something that seemed like a terrible problem turned into a life-changing opportunity.

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What I Fail to Notice

“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.” —H.G. Wells Make a list: The top ten things I most often fail to notice. Be as specific as you can. Then choose one of the items on your

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What needs to be born in you right now?

The Power of Change

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” —Alan Cohen What needs to

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My Happiness

“We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail . . . we are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muted, overwhelmed, even

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Blessing in Disguise

“Probably one of the first strokes of grace in my life was my father’s becoming totally paralyzed when I was eight years old, because it led me to becoming the kind of person I am now. Sometimes we understand grace only in retrospect. If someone were to ask me what grace is, I would probably

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Gratitude

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank you,’ that would suffice.” —Meister Eckhart Make a list of things you’re grateful for.

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Family Stories

“This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.” —Ellen Goodman Make a list of family stories you want to tell.

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