Treasure from the AWI Past Four years ago I wrote a post about “words” and focused on 2 that women seem to rarely use. Not sure why we rarely use them; but nonetheless we do. Perhaps it’s because we’re women and the words have a male sound to them. I don’t want to get too far ahead…
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Sometimes We Must. . . Sometimes we must adjust our days and weeks to accommodate life events we hadn’t planned for. Such is the case for me the past several weeks. Friend’s sudden illness, hospitalization and subsequent stay in skilled care threw my usual schedule into disarray. It also intruded on writing fresh content for…
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I Gotta Be Me! Do you recall the song made famous by Sammy Davis Jr., I Gotta Be Me? “I can’t be right for somebody else if I’m not right for me” is the line that strikes my fancy as I think about what sells. Because what sells is less about the product or service and more…
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The Busiest Season of the Year! It’s the busiest season of the year. Even without children at home, presents to wrap (just checks in envelopes these days), or major baking chores; I don’t seem to have the time to right a fresh blog each Friday. So I’ve dug into the AWI archives to again find…
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One of those days! It’s such a busy season for us all. Not only the Christmas holidays, but winding up another year and preparing for the next. So without much ado, I dug into the AWI archives to find a message that was important in years past and still has relevance for today! As I…
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Funny How Things Happen. . . Funny how one thought leads to another and to another and so on and so forth! That’s what happened to me the morning I sat to write this week’s blog. Here’s how the story begins. . . I have a dear friend of many years who is a very…
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Another post from the AWI archive of articles submitted for Nancy Becher’s online magazine! Some topics never go out of style or lose their positive impact. The subject of pride is one of them. Pride or Something Much More Nefarious? You know what they say – “pride goes before a fall“! In my lengthy experience…
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The following post is revised from an article I wrote for Nancy Becher‘s business women’s online magazine in October, 2015. I think it’s as relevant today as it was when I wrote it and Nancy published it! It All Began Like This. . . I’m a woman of strong faith. Most of you know that…
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It’s A Trap! Perfectionism is a trap. It traps us into putting off the things we say we most desire. Like success – however we define that for ourselves. It keeps us on a treadmill going over and over the same things again and again; each time attempting to make the “thing” a little better…
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Living in the Muck & Mire. . . There are those who love dirt. No matter what life brings; they will choose to live where life is dirtiest. And I don’t mean earth’s dirt. I mean the yuck that sticks to us when we persist in being our own worst enemy to the detriment of…
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