Category: Focused Simplicity
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Helping Hands
I am a bit nervous about my carpal tunnel surgery on Friday. I know it is a simple procedure, but hey, I only have two hands. I should not to miss a day of publishing the Thought of the Day. I hired a transcriptionist to do the typing. This should be fun. I don’t consider…
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Don’t Argue over the Small Stuff
Why is it that most of the arguments in a home between family are started over small insignificant things? Things like whose turn to clean something, why did that person do the thing, or why did they not do the other thing. When you feel the tingle of that urge to criticise a family member…
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It’s Friday
We have been conditioned from an early age that Friday starts the weekend. Weekends are for freedom. Work weeks are Monday through Friday. When someone says I have a different work schedule and my Monday is a Thursday, the weirdness of their week seems unnatural to us. What would happen if we had no boundaries…
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Worry Worry Worry
What does worry do for you really? Not a thing. It is the menacing What if that causes your head to hurt. Thinking about what might happen and not what is actually happening that creates all sorts of problems in humans. I struggle with worry all the time. My mom says that I was a…
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Don’t take it Personal
Usually a person’s attitude is not because of you. Anger is an emotion that humans use to respond to threat or stress. It can be a real thing or some crazy thing we make up in our mind. Still, we control our own emotions. We react to how people treat us. So, how you respond to…
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Life is better unscripted.
I love when good things happen unexpectedly. It is often small things that make me happy. A spontaneous hug or kiss from my favorite human can make my day. A letter or card from a friend in the mailbox always makes me smile. Let’s not get so caught up in all the chaos of this…
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One day at a Time
We have all heard the advice about taking days one at a time. It is the foundation of most twelve step programs. I am on a program of my own for the next twelve days as I prepare for hand surgery. A “pantser” is someone who, “flies by the seat of their pants,” meaning they…
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It’s Mother’s Day
Today is the day we make sure all the moms know that we love them. Every person on this planet has an egg donor. Not everyone has a mother. We find it easier to consider absent fathers than it is to consider a mother who births a child and walks away, though it happens. To…
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Some People are Just Mean
I am a little late on the post today because family always comes first. We all had a case of cabin fever, so we donned masks and went to a bookstore. Here we are my husband, me and five of our children walking into the store masks on, chatting and laughing. There were very few…
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Loyalty is a Choice
I have talked about trust being a choice. Loyalty is also a choice. Trust and loyalty are opposite sides of the same coin. You can be a person who is trustworthy or not. You can choose to be loyal to some people in your life or not. I think that loyalty is situational and personable.…
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 