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Make Tag Clouds from your writing!

Make Tag Clouds from your writing!

I was looking for a way to put a tag cloud on the front page of my website. I didn’t find that, but I did find a fun little application called Tag Crowd. You can upload or paste your text in at Tag Crowd to get a quick visual of the words you use the [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged goals, tags, technology, web applications | Leave a response

Easy ways to eat more vegetables

Here are some great ideas for getting more vegetables in your diet (edited slightly by me) from Fruits and Veggies Matter by the CDC (Center for Disease Control.)  They have more tips and an interactive recipe planner on their site. Meal Ideas Add vegetables like bell peppers, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms or tomatoes to your egg [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged diets, goals, health, recipes, vegetables | Leave a response

My new eating goal: 9 servings of vegetables a day

Hey all, I need to do something to feel healthier. Since limiting my food intake doesn’t work for me, I’ve decided to ADD to my food intake! My goal is to eat 9 servings of vegetables a day. I did this once years ago for three days and my skin GLOWED. It was an amazing [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged food, goals, health, skin, vegetables | 2 Responses

…Yeah, a wanderer…

I’m reading Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher. It’s about getting use all your interests, passions and hobbies and is way more helpful than I anticipated. She calls people who are interested in lots of things “scanners”, separates scanners into cyclical and sequential scanners, and separates those into subtypes. I love her examples of talking [...]

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Posted in My Life, Useful Information and Research | Tagged Barbara Sher, books, cringe worthy, goals, interests, journals, Refuse to Choose | 1 Response

Clues

I’m looking for clues about what I want to do next with all this life energy I got going on. I’m deciding if I want to take a NIA class this summer. I looked up NIA articles online and found one that gave me a sudden tingle in my stomach and get tears in my [...]

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Posted in Uplifting Media, Useful Information and Research | Tagged clues, community, goals, Joanna Newsom, music, NIA, ritual, video | 1 Response

A review of Habit Tracking tools

Joe’s Goals seems to be the most talked about online habit tracker. My first impression was that I didn’t like the way it looks. It seems a bit unwieldy to me compared to the Habit Calendar, which is the only other habit tracking tool I was able to find online. The Habit Calendar has a [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged goals, habit tracker, habit tracking, HabitCal, habits, Joe's Goals, reviews, technology | 1 Response

Tools for tracking my goals for a healthier and happier life

I’ve been reading, thinking, and making notes about living a healthier and happier life, I want to work on about 3 small life-style goals a month, and I want to share what I’m doing with all of you who read my blog. I’m investigating goal tracking software that will hopefully help me track and share [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged goals, habits, technology, tools | 1 Response

Divorce: What do you think?

My mom is (very happily) married to her 4th husband, so even though I am single, I have seen a lot of different types of marriages up close and I feel that I am highly qualified to answer this question. (Just kidding, I think everyone is highly qualified to answer this question. That’s why I [...]

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Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews | Tagged advice, divorce, friends, goals, hope, improv, marriage, teeth | 2 Responses

Goals and obstacles

Don’t pay so much attention to obstacles that you can’t see your goal. -Phylicia Rashad It’s the traditional time of year for goals and I seem to be in synch with the universe. I’m thinking about my future. Every day, ok, every hour, I think of something new I want to do. Watching the caucus [...]

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Posted in Uplifting Media, Useful Information and Research | Tagged advice, goals, health, love, politics, quotes, study, uplifting | Leave a response

Merry Christmas and a focused, motivated, happy New Year!

I got a goal workbook from a friend for Christmas. It looks like it will be very useful and I already started filling it out. I’m going to follow it up with a collage to keep me focused on my goals and to keep me inspired for the coming year. You can download and print [...]

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