Category: Life Lessons
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Living a Miraculous Life
Today’s guest writer is Leah Carey of The Miracle Journal. She is someone who, no matter how insignificant the contact (e.g., comment of a Facebook post), she makes you feel happy. It’s nothing directed at the person coming in contact with her, but rather her over-abundant amount of grace, inner peace, and happiness. It’s not…
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The Definition of Success
When you hear someone mention a “successful person,” is the assumption this person has a healthy work-life balance or is happy? Of course not. The implication is financial wealth or status. It is how we are trained to evaluate success as a society. But as someone who emphasizes happiness over wealth, I am not one…
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Progress from Perfectionism
The drive to be perfect- it’s an unwelcome quality still hanging on from my marriage. I battle this urge to aim for perfection in an attempt to extinguish the last bits of this nasty characteristic. While my old life was a well-orchestrated, focused attempt at perfection, it is time to recognize no one, but especially…
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30 Days to a Happier Life
This week’s third installment in the Contemplation & Growth Series is on Happiness. Of the six topics being covered, this is the one I write about most often and is part of the goal in being a naked girl in a dress: to be free, happy, and uninhibited. As I have written in the past,…
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How to Eliminate Stress by Focusing on Happiness
Stress and happiness. They don’t belong together. Actually, it’s incredibly difficult, other than forming a sentence with them, to put them together. Or so I have discovered. The series I started last week is about making even greater positive changes in my life. I found it was time to look up from all I have…
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Is Being Too Independent a Bad Thing?
Fiercely independent. That is how Ben from Dad of the Decade described me in the intro to his guest post here in April. When I read that, it made me pause. I remember feeling shocked that someone I met through Studio30 Plus just a month before knew that about me. How was it possible I…