Notes To My Younger Self

When you feel overwhelmed, remember that small changes reap big results over long stretches of time. Think about how when flying a compass heading in an airplane, how making just a one degree heading change over a long distance can veer your trajectory and lead you to a completely different destination. It’s the same sort…

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Notes To My Younger Self

I was out and about in Tulsa, doing one of the Watcher Wednesday exercises I post on my Facebook page Monday-Friday—a writing drill where I zone-in and hyperfocus on my surroundings—watching people, their mannerisms and speech patterns, landscapes, sounds, smells and how all these elements work together and add interest and intrigue to our world,…

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Peace and The Great Myth of Falling Behind—Blog Post #3

The Gift of Anxiety Have you ever felt anxious? Worried, concerned, or worse yet, completely stressed out? I know I have, and there was a time when I did everything I could—run, eat, hyper-prepare, shop, clean, organize—in order to whisk away the uncomfortable, sometimes incapacitating feelings of angst. But not so long ago, I had…

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