Life, love and getting (amazing) stuff done
From the category archives:
Last night, I stopped to smell the lilacs.
My daughter looked around like a jumpy doe, wondering who else besides the lilac owner might spot us. (He was sitting outside with a drink, also savoring life I’d like to think.)
“Come on Melissa, what are you doing? Those aren’t our lilacs.”
I motioned her closer.
“You have to smell [...]
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Are you spending your life under rain clouds?
I don’t mean the ones you can’t predict, the scattered showers kind.
I mean the ones you choose to pick up each morning and hang overhead like a hat. Clouds that create an atmosphere of unhappiness and gloom. You’re dying for sunlight, but day after day, the clouds get [...]
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What’s the number one excuse for not doing work you love? What’s in the way of doing the things that matter most?
Time. The magic key to unlocking a world of possibility.
Have you ever said:
There isn’t enough time in the day.
I wish I could, but there’s no time.
Where does the time go?
However you put it, time [...]
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But look: I am not alone.
Not the forgotten Grandma that no one can be bothered to visit.
There is no one paid to be my friend, no one paid to take me to out on the town.
I’m thinking: I lived life alive and I’m still loving it. While the people I love are dead or dying [...]
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“If it’s been said before, I don’t care. I enjoyed writing it. The end.” –Matt Chevy of Life Without Pants
Wow, I don’t know what to write.
Really, I’m stumped.
So instead of staring at this blank screen, I’m going to fill it up.
I’m going to keep moving forward.
“You’re free!” … all the little thoughts flitting in [...]
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Did a little voice just whisper: hey, that’s you?
We just finished paying down over $42,000 in debt and man oh man it feels amazing. I hope our story inspires you to achieve the same goal: freedom from debt. Two years ago, I was the girl reading stories like this thinking: “We’re screwed. This will [...]
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Done. Besides our mortgage, that’s what our debt is. Making the final car payment last week, my emotions went wild … joy, relief, pride, heyday. Click, done.
Because digging through that awful pile of debt, I uncovered something incredible. A feeling of freedom that was worth every missed latte or shopping trip. Here’s a secret: We [...]
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned about parenting, it’s to trust your gut.
And mine was telling me something against the norm.
Or maybe the norm is something my kids convinced me of. “Everyone gets to do that,” or “Why can’t you be like normal parents?”
Lately, I’ve been thinking, “Well if that’s normal, I’d rather be weird.”
Today’s [...]
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What’s Your Perfect World?
In a perfect world, I’d get to sleep until at least 8 a.m.
Little Boy wouldn’t jump out of bed with his volume on maximum, whistling and shouting random orders to the dog. In fact, in my perfect world, he would quietly knock and ask, “Is there anything I can help you with [...]
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What roads of life have you tested?
Where did you go? What did you see, feel, hear, learn?
I’ve walked plenty. Some paths led to happiness. Others to a hard cry over a boy, over a bottle of strawberry Boone’s Farm. At times I was just along for the ride, stopping to stretch, to become confident, to think [...]
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