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Shaping Our Dreams

When our dreams are up in the air, floating around like barely-formed wisps in our minds and hearts, they can allude us, drifting about like dandelion wishes, seeming just as insubstantial. When we give our dreams a form, a voice, when we put our ideas to paper or articulate them in some way, we remind […]

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A Change of Perspective

When my family moved into our last apartment, our final stop before purchasing a home, I barely furnished it. “Were only here for a little while,” I would offer as explanation for our couch with no coffee table, our table pushed awkwardly in the corner. Little by little the bedrooms became more homey; it was

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The Missing Ingredient

The following is a great post by Joseph over at Positive Lifestyle Blog. So much of what we experience at times is a desire to be anywhere “but” where we presently are. Left unchecked, this tends to become a habitual state of mind, since we have been inundated our entire lives to chase the rabbit

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Life Lessons From Volleyball

Volleyball is a great sport to teach life lessons that last you your entire life. Any sport will help you build character and diligence, but volleyball has unique moves that give you mental, physical, and emotional skills to take with you outside the court. Of course you learn great time management skills, sportsmanship, responsibility, and

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Dream Big, Start Small

Rereading Don’s posts about tiny habits and obtainable goals, I was reminded of a movie quote that, at the time I heard it, quite honestly acted as a wake-up call for me. In the movie, the main character turns to a friend and asks a rhetorical question about living the life that’s around him instead

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Rise and Shine

Are you a morning person? I wouldn’t say I’m especially not a morning person – I’m generally not grumpy until I’ve had coffee, and I usually don’t have too hard of a time waking up – but I’m definitely not at the top of my game in the morning. In fact, most people I know

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