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My client (we’ll call her Nancy) was paralyzed by a question that so many of us get stuck on when we’re trying to incorporate our passions into our lives: How will I know when this is happening? We want so badly to quantify and measure the progress of creating our right lives and careers, naming
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You look in your rear view mirror and see nothin’ but hood. There’s a driver on your bumper, wanting you to move faster. You’re annoyed, but get into it with him, deciding you’re not gonna budge. You’ll slow down, maybe tap your brake, but you’re not gonna change lanes. There’s no way you’re gonna cave…sound
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As mentioned in my last post, day five was the longest day of our walk at 24km. To that point, I hadn’t made it above the high teens during any of our walks. I was determined to go the distance, but wasn’t sure I could. Susan decided that she’d spend much of the walk by
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Along the Camino de Santiago, yellow arrows point the way. They’re spray painted on walls, trees and pavement. Cement columns adorned with the symbol of the Camino (a scallop shell) provide information, too, letting us know how far we’ve still got to go before we reach our goal. I’d come to rely quite heavily on
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It’s Day 3 on the Camino de Santiago. We asked our guide if people start to change as the days go on and people get closer to Santiago. We were hoping she’d say that people become more spiritual, relating stories of epiphanies and other transformational experience. What she told us, however, was “Well, people are
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I could tell you that I’ve walked 19.5km on day 1, 16 km on day 2 and 19 km today, but I’d only be sharing a fraction of the experience. We get so focused on the numbers and stats. What’s your income? How much do you weigh? What’s your GPA? We focus on the easily
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Thursday, I felt twinges in my right knee. Given its past history (skiing accident, torn miniscus, arthritis, etc.) I decided to go easy on my daily walk and do 2 1/2 miles instead of the five I planned. Yesterday, I was stiff. Despite loads of stretching, my knee wouldn’t loosen up. I skipped the walk
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Man, have I been a resistant puppy this month! I’ve been finding excuses for everything: “I can’t do this,” “It won’t work,” “I don’t have enough money,” “It’s hot and I’m tired,” “It’s too hard,” blah blah blah. I decided that a new script was in order. Here’s what I told myself: Get. Over. Yourself.
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Originally written for my newsletter readers in November ’08, I felt this piece was still relevant today. Enjoy! EVERYONE is talking about the economy. You can’t turn on the TV, the radio, or open a publication without seeing a story about how everything’s gone to hell, we’re all doomed, and the fact that this period
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Stuff happens. It’s what you do with it that matters.
