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A List for Twenty-Six
Yesterday I turned 26. I had a wonderful weekend full of family and friends and food. On Saturday night we all went out to dinner and watched Die Hard 5: you just can’t beat a Bruce Willis on your...
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Monday Mantra: Slow Down
Mondays always seem to be the busiest day of the week. The comparison of a slow Sunday morning to a rushed Monday is enough to give even the most organised soul heart palpitations. So this week’s...
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Monday Mantra: Plan B is Okay!
I have never failed a class, an exam, a course. I completed five years of a university degree that wasn’t quite the right fit because simply couldn’t quit. (I wouldn’t give up that time for anything of...
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Monday Mantra: Feel Your Love
(source) How will you make those around you feel your love today? How do you want people to remember the way you touched their life? I want my patients to feel comfortable with me, so I listen to...
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Monday Mantra: Everything to Do, Done!
I have several quotes pinned to the front door of my office, and the same quotes appear on the inspiration board next to my bed. One is from J.R.R. Tolkien and the other from Margaret Thatcher....
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Monday (er…Tuesday) Mantra: A Leap of Faith
As I alluded to in Monday’s post there are some big changes happening in my life at the moment. Changes that I need to process and pull apart like tangled string before I can present them here and...
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Monday Mantra: Pursue Your Dreams
(source) We do not fear the leap. We fear the fall that we expect will follow. We stop taking chances and pursuing our dreams because the paralysis of fear stops us in our tracks before we can even...
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Monday Mantra: Just Dance
I don’t think a day goes by where I don’t dance at least once. Perhaps dancing isn’t the right word for it. Dancing connotes some sort of grace and elegance in the movement, so I think we can best...
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Monday Mantra: Write for Yourself
Writing ~ Flaubert I apologise for my absent Gratitude List, I promise a mega list next Monday. At the moment, dear friends, I am Writing. With a capital ‘W’. I feel the words moving through me and I...
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Falling
Today I fell. The earth tipped underneath me and gravity sucked me down. Skin torn, bones rattled, muscles mashed, and pride wounded I limped away from the experience and willed myself not to cry or...
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Weekly Mantra: Say Yes, Then Figure it Out
Thursday (yesterday) was my first day at my new job. A huge thank you to everyone for the well wishes, and to the darling Chris for dealing with my nerves (oh, they were first-day-back-at-school...
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Midweek Mantra: Patience
I am so often in a rush to reach the next stage of my life, to achieve the next goal, to summit the next mountain, and this only leads to anxiety and stress. I need to learn to be patient, practice...
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Midweek Mantra: Gathering the Minutes
My diary is a tumultuous place. Full of weeks of blank pages that suddenly become months of flurried activity and then settle again into blankness. My relationship with this dichotomy of diary states...
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Midweek(ish) Mantra: Live With Kindness
When I was a little girl and lost my temper because Mum had asked me to do something that I didn’t want to do her remark was usually delivered calmly but with gravity, ‘Amy could you just do that with...
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Midweek Mantra: Do it Every Day
When you have a dream, a vision, or a soul-shaking idea of what you want your life to be you are awakened to the gap between your current location and your planned destination. We are bombarded with...
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Nourished Life: Small Great Things
All of my life I have wanted to do great things. I have felt that somehow my life was only worth measuring by impressive feats and grand achievements. I felt that I needed to ‘make something’ of myself...
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