
I was recently floating in the outdoor pool at a local hot springs resort when I heard a loud voice shouting,
“Honey, you will love this, it’s just like lemonade.” I got curious who this voice belonged to and where this person found this delicious lemonade, so I opened my eyes and what I saw was an excited mom handing her young toddler, who was happy playing on the pool’s steps, a plastic cup of cucumber water.
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Stress cannot be avoided. We live in a 24/7 world and it’s just unrealistic to believe you can eliminate, reduce or avoid stress. In fact, believing you can eliminate, reduce or avoid stress will only stress you out more.
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If you support marriage equality, you probably recognize that every human being should enjoy the same rights and privileges. Period. Have you ever thought about that in reference to your own internal community? Are there aspects of your personality that cause you pain, jealousy, guilt, sadness? Would you just rather ignore them, because they make you feel uncomfortable?
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Have you ever stopped to look at just how much undue pressure you put on yourself, everyday. To get things done by some self-created deadline, to get a super human amount of things done in a day or month or year, to achieve things faster than a silver bullet?
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For most it probably seemed like a pretty insignificant coincidence (if anyone even noticed). For me it was proof positive of the remarkable influence for good included in human consciousness.
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Right before the holidays I made a few financial decisions that I wish I hadn’t made. Nothing catastrophic. Just some money that went places I wish it hadn’t, in retrospect. It’s made for a tighter start of 2013 than I prefer.
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My flight was delayed and there were two lines forming. I’d just spent the week prior doing five photo shoots in the sweltering heat of Texas but I was having the time of my life. This flight delay didn’t worry me. I was on a high. I found a line where there were only two people in front of me while the other line across the way had about 15 people waiting. I remember thinking in that moment how lucky I was to have gravitated towards the shorter line.
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How do you feel when someone looks at you disapprovingly? What comes up when they tell you to be someone else, to do things their way, to follow their beliefs?
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As a culture and as human beings, we spend just about as much time talking about and thinking about our relationships and our relationship status as we do about how we are going to pay our bills and lose 5 lbs. Millions of dollars, maybe even trillions of dollars, are spent trying to find the one, make the one we have better, and decide if the one we have is really the one we want!
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Having just faced the challenge of distilling my message down to 18 minutes for a TEDx talk I found myself looking at a blank computer screen, wondering what I would write as the Christmas post for my blog. And I thought “What if Jesus had only 18 minutes to share the entire New Testament?"
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