Start with the first step. Proceed.
Make a new friend.
Spend time together.
Be your true self, especially when it’s difficult.
Disagree.
Let them go.
Figure out how to soothe yourself.
Welcome them back.
Willingly fall further into friendship’s gooey centre.
Copy what you envy.
Forget who’s who.
Draw a line.
Notice recurring border skirmishes.
Learn about yourself.
Draw a different line, one that includes all of you.
Do your [...]
If socializing in a party setting doesn’t come easily to you, you still have options other than staying home – options which include being yourself.
To cerebrate means to use the mind, to think or to think about. Rather than psyching yourself up to be a party animal, consider musing your way through the festivities.
You may [...]
Toss out the unloved and unused
Don’t finish
Put up a temporary wall
Say “I don’t know”
Loosen your grip
Don’t tell anyone where you’re going
Let them talk
Clear the decks
Hire help
Excuse yourself and leave
Expand your view
Put down the sword
Go where you can be anonymous
Wing it
Don’t equate alone with lonely
Eat less
Say “Oh, never mind”
Let go of your secrets
Sit alone in a [...]
This list is much more powerful than its 32 individual ways. Do as many as possible to vastly increase synergy, energy, possibilities, inspiration, and forward movement. Do them all. Be you, be gentle, and still fill the coffers. {Links in curly brackets lead to related reading.}
Contain and Focus – Set [...]
My husband and I are in the midst of dealing with what we’ve dubbed La Bombe – the bomb our landlord dropped on us when he informed us that he and his new family will move into our apartment. We’ve got until the end of October.
Tricky timing, though. The upcoming winter Olympics here in Vancouver [...]
