Tag: Self-Awareness
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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.…
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Never Again
I have lost so many friends over my lifetime. Sometimes it was my fault and other times life just happened. After the last painful betrayal of my best friend, I made a decision to never put myself in a situation that allows someone to break my heart again. It is human nature to either trust…
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Will You Ever Fall in Love?
Yes and no. Love is a verb. Love has levels. Love is either there or it is not. You choose to love. I believe that love is an action you choose. However, I also know I fell in love with my husband. I fell in love when I looked into the eyes of my children,…
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It is May Day
When I was a child May Day was a fun event. There were festivals, flowers, sweet treats, dances, and May poles. I remember it being a celebration of Spring. I wonder what happened to May Day fun? I don’t hear of that anymore. In any case, today is beautiful where I am. The sun is…
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Broken but Good
I have been broken. At the time I was sure my life was over. Things could not get any worse. Then things changed. I was wrong. Things improved. Sometimes we are broken for good. Sometimes we can’t become better than who we are until we are broken of the mundane mediocre life we settled for.…
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We bring pain to ourselves.
Yes things hurt. We get hurt by others and we get physical pain inflicted on us by things we can not control. However, there are so many things that we do that cause ourselves pain. From jobs we choose to lack of care to our bodies and minds. We must be mindful of what we…
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Stop Hiding Behind Rules
I like rules. I like the consistency of knowing that I can do anything and if I choose to not do a thing, the consequences are known. If I speed and get a ticket, I pay a fine. If I don’t do the things my employer expects and follow the rules, I will be unemployed.…
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Do you really Need that New Shiny Thing?
The modern obsession is about things. The best car, computer, house, cell phone plan….you name it, we want the best. Why is that? Why can’t we be happy with the nice things that might not be the most expensive? Why do we have to live with so much stuff? I am always amazed when I…
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Your Home is Yours
My family is known to be different. We have been called weird and that does not bother us. They are looking at us through the lens of traditional conventions of the American family. In some ways, we look like everyone else. We are married with children. We live in a middle-class neighborhood. That is about…
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What Friend?
Did you ever run into a friend whom you haven’t seen in a long time and wonder what happened? You know the one. The one who you did everything with and were even maybe contemplating spending forever with, yeah that one. What did you say the last time you saw them? In my experience, when…
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 