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The Gift and Power of Choice and How to properly Use it.

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“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”  —Wayne Dyer We’ve all been given the great gift to choose for ourselves how we want to be. What a wonderful gift! To get to choose at any given moment how to respond to anything and anyone. That’s pure power! And it’s even more powerful when it’s used properly and motivated by love. Love for ourselves and love for others. Love for the gift itself and the power it brings. But its proper…

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What to do When your Plans don’t go according to Plan

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We all wake up with a great plan for the day. Often we even go to bed the night before with a plan in mind. But what do you do when what you had planned just isn’t an option anymore? You could get all upset and bummed and be miserable and sad that you weren’t able to do what you wanted to do. Give up on the day and just forget about trying to accomplish anything. You could get angry and be mean to whoever made things not go according to plan. You could curse God and the universe for…

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Why we keep Loving and Serving even when Others may treat us poorly

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One of the best ways to show those we love that we truly love them is by serving them and doing good things for them that make them happy. But what do you do when all the good things you do for them are left unacknowledged and unappreciated? Maybe even reciprocated with disgust or disdain or mean and hurtful words and actions? Well, the best answer I can come up with is: You Keep Loving and you Keep Serving. Lao Tzu said: “Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus…

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They’re Back!

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No, this is not about a Poltergeist attack or anything like that. It’s actually quite the opposite. At least it was for me. So one week a year, my kids go and spend that time with their dad on vacation. And I have the entire week all to myself! Some of you moms are probably freaking out at the thought of an entire week without kids. You’re lucky to have even five minutes and would be so grateful if you could just get that. Well, let me tell you, I’ve been there too. And a whole week without kids is…

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