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A Decluttering Guide for Sensitive People

When it’s hard to let go… — If you want to declutter your life but get overwhelmed in the process, you might be a sensitive declutterer. If your dream is to get all those boxes out of the basement and the attic but you keep getting sidetracked by family mementos and personal keepsakes that you end up…

Decluttering

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Decluttering

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10 Things to Leave Behind As You Enter the New Year

The new year is not the time to add things to your life — it’s the time to let things go — If you haven’t yet, it’s likely at some point in your life you will reach the Letting Go stage. I hear more and more women, empty nesters, and mid-lifers talking about letting go. It’s been happening to me for about six years, but rather than just a phase, I’ve adopted…

New Year

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New Year

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Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life

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Netflix’s Emily in Paris Reveals the Secrets of Work-Life Balance the French Already Know

Work like the French and live a more satisfying life — Is it just Americans that are obsessed with making money? Are Americans the only ones being duped into giving away personal time to make large corporations exorbitant profits? What can we learn from other cultures about work and life, or better put, life and work? The price of anything is…

Work Life Balance

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Work Life Balance

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How to Perform a Personal Annual Review Before Setting Goals and Intentions for a New Year

Seeing where you’ve been will inform where you want to go — It’s always exciting to start fresh, clean the slate, and make new goals and intentions. Most of us rarely lack inspiration — we’ve got plenty of Instagram and Tik Tok videos to inspire us to change. The problem where we usually falter is in motivation to keep going. Inspiration is…

New Year

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New Year

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Published in Middle-Pause

·6 days ago

Check Out These Secret Flower Meanings Next Time You Send a Bouquet

The secret language of flowers can send the perfect message — If you’ve received a bouquet of flowers from someone you probably took notice of the pretty arrangement, interesting petals, the color, and maybe the fragrance. But if you had lived in the Victorian era and received a bouquet of flowers, the gift might have taken on a whole new meaning…

Flowers

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Check Out These Secret Flower Meanings Next Time You Send a Bouquet

Flowers

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Published in Koinonia

·Jan 27

Where Is Your Altar in the World?

Sacred is everywhere — “My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.” — Gunilla Norris I needed an activity that would force me — by the nature of the process — to slow down. A mind spinning on fast cycle for…

Morning

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Morning

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MORNING DEVOTIONS

Where Is Your Altar in the World?

Sacred is everywhere

“My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.” — Gunilla Norris

I needed an activity that would force me — by the nature of the process — to slow down. A mind spinning on fast cycle for…

Published in a Few Words

·Jan 12

Poetry Challenge: Write a Poem That Can Fit on the Back of a Business Card

My Life is a Stream — They say where thoughts go energy flows. My life is a stream leading to you. You meet me at the sea A loop closed in love. I forget sometimes that everything doesn’t have to be involved and complicated. This simple poem was written in minutes. Can you write a business…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Poetry Challenge: Write a Poem That Can Fit on the Back of a Business Card

My Life is a Stream

They say where thoughts go energy flows.
My life is a stream leading to you.
You meet me at the sea
A loop closed in love.

I forget sometimes that everything doesn’t have to be involved and complicated.

This simple poem was written in minutes.

Can you write a business…

Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life

·Jan 11

Lean into this Mindset Shift: Everything Isn’t as Hard as You Think

What if just a small change is all you need? — I like to say that life is simple but it ain’t easy. Lately, though, I’ve taken on a new challenge offered to me by Mary Anne Radmacher, author of Lean Forward Into Your Life. Mary Anne asks, “What if everything were easy?” What if we took this perspective when thinking…

Change

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Lean into this Mindset Shift: Everything Isn’t as Hard as You Think

Change

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Published in Koinonia

·Jan 11

Where is ‘Rest’ in Our Busyness?

Undisciplined by submission to God, our strengths can fill a lifetime with exhausting but unnecessary work and distraction. — Alicia Britt Chole I see it, don’t you? The busyness, the hustle, the projects at church, the programs, the things…the DOing. Are they all His things? Or do they just make…

Morning

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Morning

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MORNING DEVOTIONS

Where is ‘Rest’ in Our Busyness?

Undisciplined by submission to God, our strengths can fill a lifetime with exhausting but unnecessary work and distraction. — Alicia Britt Chole

I see it, don’t you?

The busyness, the hustle, the projects at church, the programs, the things…the DOing.

Are they all His things?

Or do they just make…

Published in ILLUMINATION

·Jan 9

I Earned in One Year What I Had Hoped to Earn in One Month

The reality of a writer’s life on this platform — Even though it can be painful, I am a big believer in reflecting regularly. Taking stock, getting clear on numbers, and looking at the big picture. I do this regularly in my life. I’ve created a cadence of reflective practices and have even created a downloadable journal and planner to…

Writing Life

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