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Conan O’Brien is Such a Class Act
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. Here’s the video and full text of Conan’s last speech on the Tonight Show. I encourage you to watch it even if you aren’t a fan. He is such [...]
Dare Mighty Things
I gave myself a fight-off-this-cold-before-I-get-it reprieve from my “to do” list yesterday, and read You Have The Power; Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear by Frances Moore Lappe and Jeffrey Perkins. I highly recommend it! I love that it was such a good book. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win [...]
Comforting Thought for the Day: the place you have to push through to is very close
I felt totally overwhelmed yesterday, so naturally, I browsed the internet, spent some time on facebook, and otherwise wiled away my hours. Today, I feel more ready to tackle my “to do” list. This post by Keri Smith helps. …there is a point where you have to push through and get past the “stuckness”. you [...]
Choose a Job you LOVE
Here’s some advice from Gene Siskel to his children. Its embedded in this tribute to him. I found it at Roger Ebert’s tribute to Gene Siskel. Siskel & Ebert (1999) – Remembering Gene Siskel – Part 3 by joecool85 You know, many of us had parents who said that we should have jobs that we [...]
Every weight issue is really a power issue
This really gave me an Aha! moment. Ok, several aha moments. Every weight issue is really a power issue. Your body is not what you want it to be. At heart, you feel that this is beyond your control. Thintuition is about returning power and control back to you. You become the boss of your own body. [...]
Love letter from Barbara Sher
You must explore the workings of who you are, not who you believe you ought to be. That means you must respect your tastes, your ideas, and your inner clock. Live every other creature in this world, you were designed to do something well… Don’t try to change your self into something else. Just observe what you do without [...]
What do you want the most in all the world?
Eve Ensler says that “When we give, in the world, what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.” What do you want most in the world, and how do you give it? I’m figuring out, figuring out, still figuring out what to do with my wee one wild and [...]
Write a little everyday
Write a little everyday, without hope, without despair. -Isak Dinesen Found in Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher Wow, I could use that sentiment in a lot of areas of my life: “Exercise a little everyday, without hope, without despair.” “Reach out to other people a little everyday, without hope, without despair.” “Plant [...]
Vintage Dooce
Sadly True… Thinking Thursday, January 17 2002 Do you hear that? Yeah, that’s my biological clock, and it’s angry. FUNNY… :) Thinking Tuesday, January 22 2002 I wish I could CTRL-Z the gel I put in my hair Thinking Wednesday, January 23 2002 It is cold today in LA. I want my money back. How [...]
Sue Monk Kidd quotes
Another problem that keeps us from manifesting our creativity is a resistance to act. I’m not talking about being creatively idle… The resistance to act is of a different sort. It is an odd contention that rises up inside and keeps us from beginning and then keeps us from following through. Often we like to [...]
