Plate of French Fries

Merri-Wanna Time!

Bet you can’t eat just one…

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of those pieces.

— Judith Viorst

First off – let me tell you a secret about PattiAnn: She can make a chocolate bar last for days!  Truly!  For many of the rest of us, just one taste of a chocolate bar or a french fry sends us into a frenzy of “more, I want more… I’m merry and I-wanna-eat-more…” or as I’ve paraphrased: Merri-Wanna Time!

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What’s NOT Being Said

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What if you’re only telling yourself the negative side of the story?

Every waking moment we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn controls the way we feel and act.

— John Lembo

When I saw the photo that tops this post I thought: I want to feel like that!  Powerful, exuberant, graceful, flexible, free.  But I don’t.  I’m beginning to realize that there’s something more I need to say to myself… there are some missing messages in my self-talk.

And while I was wishing I felt like the woman in the photo, I also remembered when, not too very long ago, PattiAnn gave me feedback about my post, I Want to Choose Easy – she said Continue reading » What’s NOT Being Said

Cup o’ Inspiration

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Take a short break and consider the following:

“I try not to worry about the future – so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.”

Tom Wilson

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