Group of kids at Bemis WV

GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE!

Reading time:  Approximately 3 minutes Do you ever feel “stuck” and you just aren’t sure how to get from where you are to where you want to be?   A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to spend a…

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Can You Learn to be Content?

Reading time:  Approximately 4 minutes Can you learn to be content? Do you ever look around at others and feel as though your perfect life is somehow just out of your grasp?  You’re sure if you have this certain thing,…

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How to Cope with Change

When life throws you a curveball, how good are you at coping with the resulting changes?    Brian often remarks that our family doesn’t do change.  The truth is, not many of us love change, especially when the change is…

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In Place of Panic

In Place of Panic (during this unprecedented pandemic) Reading time:  approximately 4 minutes This unprecedented time in which we are currently living has the ability to produce mind numbing-panic.    It is easy to swing from calm to chaos and…

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Is Fear Stealing Your Dreams?

Approximate Reading time:  4 mins Fear steals our dreams.  Maybe I should rephrase that statement.  More appropriately stated; all too often, we allow fear to steal our dreams.  What brought that fact into focus for me?  It goes back quite…

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Simplify Gift Giving

How to Simplify Gift Giving

Do you procrastinate on purchasing gifts?   If so, you probably empathize with the reason I carry a pair of scissors and a roll of tape in my vehicle.  Having scissors and tape in my Jeep enables me to purchase…

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Falling building blocks

Are the Little Things Breaking You?

Read time:  Approximately 3 minutes Updated 05/19/2022 Do you ever feel as though you make the same mistakes over and over again?   It is possible that the little things are to blame.   Just recently as I was heading…

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Rein In Your Inner Judge!

As always, I was running late.  The truck in front of me was turning right.  Clearly, there were no vehicles approaching from that direction.  He was free to turn.  So why, oh why, wasn’t he turning? The longer we sat,…

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Yellow mustard plant

Think Little, Achieve Big!

Do you ever hear about those kids whose moms made them learn to play a musical instrument in which they had no interest? Not only am I one of those kids, I am also a middle child! Year end, year…

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