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"Spend your life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress."
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“If I have learned anything in the real world, it’s that talent and intelligence are everywhere, but boldness is not.”
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It reminds me of a quote I just read "Comps do not have feelings. You are not abandoning them"
Busy becomes this black hole that mysteriously abducts us away from the humble land of availability. I've lately been reminded though that every one's busy. They're just not so jackass to have to shout it from the rooftop. I think we often make the mistake of assuming that our worth somehow corresponds with how busy we are. I've done it myself--advised dating friends that if a guy calls, tell him you're busy. You're in demand. You're just sooooo tied up with fabulous things that make you busy, busy, busy. When my dad was in college, he worked as an orderly in a nursing home. He said employees used to laugh listening to the residents as they gathered in the lounge at the end of the day. While most of them had spent their days sleeping, knitting, wandering the halls, at night those banal routines transformed into embellished stories of just how very busy they were. And whether or not their tales were altered by dementia, it was obvious they understood the idea that they were admired, even just within the small community of wheelchairs, if they spent their days tied up with very important things. "What did you do today, Florence?" "Well, funny you should ask, Lloyd. I was so busy." I'm tired of the word busy. Try saying it over and over--it's annoying. I've been busy all year (I swear I'm going to stop saying busy), and it's time to take a tip from those old people and take some time to slowly shuffle, fold wash cloths, knit booties and maybe even play a game of cribbage or two. That makes us significant just as much as crazy schedules, if not more. If companies struggle all year to break even and Black Friday finally flips the switch to gaining profit, then perhaps I should, likewise, focus on the rest of the year as pure gain. I'm going to enjoy it.
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Rory Grimes Love it! Downtime is so undervalued. Enjoy it!
"You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again." - Steve Jobs
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Wink Not fair, he was a genius. Easy for him to say that people are no smarter than he. ;)
“I don’t think I’m tangible to myself. I mean, I think one thing today and I think another thing tomorrow. I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else. I don’t know who I am most of the time. It doesn’t even matter to me.” - Bob Dylan
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Picture that the Grand Canyon is your life--your past, present and future. Start envisioning the various parts of your life within the canyon: Over there is the day you were born, your third-grade choir performance, your job as a babysitter. Picture your present: There's your apartment, your friends, your mom, the book you're reading right now. Picture your future: There's your next vacation, the love of your life, your future children, the Top Chef finale. :) Now, my therapist told me, picture the enormous Grand Canyon and drop your worry into it. Whatever you're worrying about--your cranky boss, your dating life, a salty comment from a friend--will be barely visible. "See how tiny it looks?" she says. Suddenly your problem will seem much, much smaller in comparison to the grand course of your huge, rich, long life.
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“Small minded people talk about other people. Medium minded people talk about things. Big minded people talk about ideas”
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If you don't hear from me...
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Afton Fisher KEEP ME! KEEP ME! I don't eat much and I certainly don't take up too much room. ;)
Shawna Anderson Fabulous! Thanks
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I was having a conversation with a friend who had recently become a parent, and she reminded me of something I had forgotten about since my daughter was born. She was describing this what-have-I-done feeling – I just got everything perfect in my life, and then I went and messed it all up by having a baby. I don’t feel that way anymore, but the thought certainly crossed my mind a few times at the beginning. Eventually you just fall in love and forget about everything else, but it’s not a very comfortable transition. I compare the process to becoming a vampire, your old self dies in a sad and painful way, but then you come out the other side with immortality, super strength and a taste for human blood. At least that’s how it was for me. At any rate, it’s complicated.
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The software does all the work, AMIRITE?
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"I'm making some changes in my life. If you don't hear from me, you are one of them."
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best advice ever passed on to me. quote by Ira Glass
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Wink My aunt and uncle's wedding vows. :)