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Pep Talk | Walk the Plank

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What do you stand for? Is it Love or Beauty or Home or Peace … or, perhaps, The Acoustic Guitar. What it is matters less than that you know it.
It’s the thing you’re a broken record about, the thing that stands the test of time. The thing your bones and cells know. It’s the thing [...]

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The Sustainable World of Me

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Saving the world is good. (Duh.) But we can’t do it if we’re dead.
Or lying on the floor in a puddle of half-checked to-do lists. Or transfixed by the three-digit number of unread emails. Or brow-beating ourselves for being in debt or fat or lonely or dorky.
The first world to make sustainable is my own. [...]

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Pep Talk | Count Your Limbs

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

“You usually do not try to describe your relationship with your leg, because you understand that your leg is you.”
~ Abraham/Esther Hicks, The Vortex
You may be unsteady on your feet because you’ve lost a part of yourself. Don’t circle the house wondering where you left it or scan your companions for signs of thievery. Ask [...]

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Pep Talk | Choose

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

How often do you feel overwhelmed? What story do you tell yourself then?
If there’s any self-pity in your story, it’s time to change your perspective. If you compare yourself to others and conclude that you’re designed poorly, you’re looking through eyes that aren’t your own.
You are perfectly packaged. Adjust your advertising.
Too scratchy. Too fast. Too [...]

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Pep Talk | Flip

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Imagine a handful of coins spread across a tabletop. Only one side of each coin faces up. The other side is hidden. Our lives, our habits, consist of the same spread of coins, facing the same way up, over and over…unless we’re willing to flip.
The comfortable side of the coin tends to land facing up. [...]

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