Category: Focused Simplicity
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Mini Road-trips
Want to get your family away from screens? Put everyone on the car, go an hour or two from home and pretend your from out of state. My husband sat in the back seat with the kids and I drove. We played music and sang with the radio. Spent he day pretending to be tourists.…
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Life is Good
You might be tired. You might be broken. You might have no money. You might be depressed. You might be lost in a world of chaos. If you have a person who loves you. Life is good. I don’t mean that they just say they love you. Anyone can say they love you and be…
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Save the Thank You
If you are really thankful, say it. If you just say it to be polite you are missing an opportunity to experience gratefulness. In a society of automatic negativity, we should always look for the positive. Genuine thank yous are difficult to come by, cultivate them when you can.
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It’s so easy…
Spending money is so easy. Eating that decadent dessert is so easy. Sleeping later is so easy. Speaking negatively about yourself is so easy. Self discipline is not impossible. It does take work. Being a decent human takes continual attention. If you drop your guard even a little, you find yourself three steps back on…
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Rocks in The Head
Please don’t be that person who refuses to see that things can be different. Don’t be closed minded and think that only your shiny ideas are the best. Everyone thinks their rocks are the shinier than other people’s rocks.
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Out of Office
How many times a week do I sit down and my writing muse does not show up to play? Let us just say several. No matter what you do creatively if inspiration doesn’t strike you, leave it alone. Walk away. Sometimes an idea will hit you when you are thinking about something else. Don’t get…
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Happy is as Happy Does
Want to be happy? Here’s the secret…get ready…it’s an amazing thing….ok, here it goes… If you want to be happy, be happy. Choose happy. Live happy. Let go of everything and everyone who interferes with your happy. Happy is as happy does. Fact.
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Give a Little
If you give a little kindness you will always get more back than you give. It may not be the same day or the same person to give it to you that you gave kindness too, however good will always return good. Fact.
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Love and Hate
I disagree that there is a fine line between love and hate. Rather than two monsters sitting on opposite sides of a line they can exist at the same time. You can love someone and hate them at the same time. This is not a good place to live. It’s a toxic thing. Don’t take…
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Home
What does home mean to you? Home is where you are most comfortable. Home is where you keep your stuff. Home is where you grew up. Home is where you live. Home is where your love lives. Home is not just a place but a feeling.
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 