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Be Positive In Each Moment

December 9, 2019 By Rick Leave a Comment

Be positive in each moment.  Change yourself. Change the world.

How many times do we rip ourselves apart with our own negative self-talk?  We continually sabotage ourselves, the positive steps we want to make to improve ourselves and improve our lives.  We put ourselves into these downward spirals of defeat and it gets harder and harder to lift ourselves up.

Give this some thought: one small positive step, anything, will begin the journey back to our healthy self.  Don’t make the step hard. Choose one thing that helps; often it’s by helping one person with something they need.  Look out – not in.

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A Young Adult’s Spark

December 6, 2019 By Rick Leave a Comment

Ignite a young adult's spark

A young adult’s spark, that dream they have, is too often blown out by society’s expectations.

We look back and remember the dreams of our youth.  All the things we wanted to do and accomplish. Maybe we did some of them and for sure we didn’t do all of them.  But our dreams knew no bounds.

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How Do We Choose When We Don’t Know Why?

December 4, 2019 By Rick Leave a Comment

How do we choose when we don't know why?

How do we choose when we don’t know where we want to go because we don’t know why?

Yes, we want to go somewhere.  No, we don’t need a map. Wrong.  Not only do you need the map but you had to decide first why you were going somewhere.

Why don’t we map out our own self-discovery as well?

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Believe That You Are Enough

December 2, 2019 By Rick Leave a Comment

Believe you are good enough

Believe that you are enough.  You belong here. Your life matters.  Your inner critic is wrong.

I think that one of the saddest things for most of us, me included, is that we think we’re not enough, that we’re not worthy.  I don’t know how many times I’ve read in various comments sections that, when asked, people admit to not “being good enough.”

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What is Your Truth?

November 30, 2019 By Rick Leave a Comment

What is your truth?  What defines you that others should see and that you must live?

How many of us put on masks, erect barriers, or turn our backs on others wanting only to be left alone?  Far too many of us and far too many times.

We all, understandably, want to be accepted and know that we belong in the world we know.  We pretend we’re okay and fine, and refuse to show our pain. We hide who we really are, what really matters to us, and that we’re hurt or confused.

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Live From The Heart – Not The Pain

November 27, 2019 By Rick Leave a Comment

Past pain, real or imagined, cannot be current pain.  Leave it where it belongs, in your unchangeable memories.

Why do we wait so long to let go of the things, and people, that hurt us long ago?  We carry past pain entwined throughout our lives into every decision and interaction for years.

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