Continued from Part 1
How can we help ourselves bounce back when there are so many options and too many conflicting decisions to be made? Take a 15 minute Blue-Sky-Break and DayDream!
What would you do if you won the big Kahuna of lotteries??? Forget for a moment that the odds are stacked against you. What would you do with the windfall? Who would you want to share your winnings with? What would you do with your days if you didn’t need to earn a paycheck? If money weren’t an issue, how would you decide whatever question is plaguing you?
No matter how upbeat we try to be, we all have days when we feel discouraged. For me the past week has been a real challenge. You would think that a short week (I wrote this after Memorial Day week.) would make things easier, but in the end, the week felt like a failure. For some writers, just the act of writing helps them to feel better. For me that isn’t the case. As a matter of fact, when I started this post, I thought that I would probably just trash it because I didn’t see a way out of my discouragement.
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When you’re feeling deflated by indecision and what-if’s, how can you get your bounce back?
Over several months, as PattiAnn and I wrestled with our vision for this blog, our ideas ricocheted and reverberated like a handball in a four-wall court. Fast, furious and befuddling. We became our very own worst nightmare, full blown, indecisive, “what if” worriers. What if we couldn’t build traffic? What if our niche is too narrow? What if this and what if that???
Continue reading » What Next? – Part 1 – Listen to Your Hunches
When I was a kid, many long years ago, I didn’t have very many friends. I went to the Catholic school attached to our parish church, but the church was far enough away that we had a local chapel where the families in our area attended Mass. So, if I wanted to participate in school activities, I had to be dropped off and picked up. My parents were overprotective, my father having been scarred for life by the Lindbergh kidnapping. Seriously, it was an awful incident, but we didn’t have any money and certainly no fame. We just didn’t provide much prospect for fame or fortune for any would be kidnappers.
Continue reading » The Comfort of Friendship
NED – “no evidence of disease” is what we expected to hear after the latest, now routine round of tests. Instead, we heard, “it appears there is disease here.” Esophageal cancer is hard to beat down but we thought my husband’s surgery and two chemotherapy regimens, completed a year ago, had beat it down. It had. For a short while. But it is back.
We weren’t expecting this news. And it knocked us for a loop. (Ya think??) We’re still in a state of shock, trying to make sense out of what appears to be a death sentence. But so it was, back in the Fall of 2007, and he managed to beat it down then. And even though last year’s chemo threw him in the hospital for eleven days, he’s signed-on for doing chemo again. That takes guts, let me tell you!
Continue reading » We Got the News…
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