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Tightly Wound
I was born to be a worrier. Seriously. I am quite certain that it’s in my DNA, part of the legacy my father gave me. He was a world class worrier, Olympic gold medalist level. He would worry if we were a minute late getting home from school. He would worry about every cough and…
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My Kryptonite
Days ago one of the staff in our organization lost her sister after a long and valiant fight against cancer. I went to the visitation and looked at a roomful of mourners, at a woman too young to be in a casket, at photos on screens and displays, all showing someone full of life and…
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Enduring
One of the things I believe fully is that life is all about relationships. They are at the core of our quality of life and the richness of our experience. They are also at the core of our ability to achieve in our professional lives. Whether you believe it or not, existing in isolation, succeeding…
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Celebrating Freedom
We have just concluded the holiday of Passover, a time when we tell the story of the escape from Egypt, a time that we bring life to the words of “let my people go.” We list the ten plagues that were sent to the Egyptians, increasing horrors to convince them that the Israelites must be…
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Back and Forward
The vernal equinox took place just days ago, the moment when we, once again, embrace the spring and the season of renewal and re-awakening. I think you would be hard pressed not to feel joy at the sight of daffodils blooming in their sunshine yellow, leaves beginning to bud and the sun feeling warm after…
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Living with Loss
I have come to believe that our paths in life are determined by loss and how we manage loss. Every change in our lives, we know, involves an ending. After endings, there are certainly beginnings—new times, new experiences, new eras. But what those new beginnings are, and how our life moves forward, is a result…
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Remain Calm
If there is one characteristic that is foreign to my innate personality, calm may well be it. I have always been a person who is quick to react, prone to (I admit it) some drama, my emotions on the surface. Although I have not, and am sure never will, mastered the art of the poker…
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Taking A Moment
It’s a funny thing how much of life we spend on auto pilot, auto movement, going through the motions. Even when we try to slow down we often do it by immersing ourselves in something, from reading to watching television, that perpetuates that state of absorption rather than reflection. This week I was busy with…
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Perspective
I did a workshop exercise this week where we had to assign a number to each of a variety of key facets of our life. The numbering scale was 1 to 10 and the categories included relationships, career, money, health and the like. I, methodical soul that I sometimes am, thought initially that I had…
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Doing Hard Things
So much of the direction of our life reflects our personality. We see it in our relationships, in our work, in our choices. We play our roles in life firmly based on who we are and who we have always been. That’s not to say we can’t learn and grow and change along the way.…
With a Full Heart 