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The Extra Magic of Getting Out of your Comfort Zone

The Extra Magic of Getting Out of your Comfort Zone My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy … Continue reading

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Building each other up to be happy

Building each other up to be happy If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness … Continue reading

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Finding Happiness in the Apocalypse

Finding Happiness in the Apocalypse I’ve been joking for awhile that we’re in the apocalypse.  I’ve talked in this blog about how this may in fact be a slow motion apocalypse.  What do I mean by that?  We always envision … Continue reading

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Believe in Yourself and Be Happy!

Believe in Yourself and Be Happy! Believe in yourself!  Have faith in your abilities!  Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you can’t be happy or successful ~ Norman Vincent Peale I’ve been trying to be more … Continue reading

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Learning like a child

Learning like a child Curiosity is the wick of the candle of learning. ~ William Arthur Ward Originally posted November, 2018 I suddenly really have a lot of respect for three year-olds.  Because you see, in terms of learning Spanish … Continue reading

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Everybody is just winging it!

Everybody is just winging it! Originally posted April, 2020 There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, … Continue reading

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How to Change to Be Happy

How to Change to Be Happy Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life ~ Omar Khayyam Well tonight my friends I want to talk about what I always talk about, how to be happy.  Over the … Continue reading

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Are you Afraid?

Are you Afraid? Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.                       ~ Mark Twain So my time at work is winding down, I actually have about 24 work days remaining before my next big adventure begins.  … Continue reading

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A Happy Hiking Anniversary

A Happy Hiking Anniversary Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains. ~ Robert … Continue reading

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