I had never taken the time to seriously think about this idea before:
Being too picky and having unrealistically high expectations could mean you end up with nothing at all or with a situation far less desirable and delayed at that.
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Spiritual tsunamis occur when two elements in your life are at odds with one another and are causing friction in your consciousness. This friction can be ignored for awhile (just as a tsunami is not a threat when it is out at sea) but it will eventually make it to the surface of your life itself–and by the time it gets there, it will have gained enough momentum and magnitude to do some serious damage.
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All too often, when we encounter a story of someone who has “made it,” whether it is a person who has achieved something similar to our career dreams, someone who found and married her perfect partner, or even just someone who won an award (that you didn’t even apply for), our first reaction is to dismiss any possibility of such a lovely thing happening in our own life.
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In the midst of our venting, I was able to take a step back and realize that, although we were both dealing with challenges at present, they were challenges that we both felt capable of handling, and were a result of choices we had made in the past. The problems we were presently facing had no real influence or power over our futures. If these weren’t the types of problems we wanted, we could simply make different choices going forward, and choose to have new problems…
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Some contemporary thinkers are lashing out against the trope of the unhappy writer–not the individuals themselves–but rather our passive acceptance of the existence of the miserable, broke, and moderately insane word artist. It wasn’t until recently that I realized–or at least admitted to myself–that I too was headed on the path of being one of those miserable writers.
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Many of us deprive ourselves of the very things that could bring us the most happiness in our lives. It’s almost as if we believe there is a limited quantity of goodness available to us and we don’t want to use it up for fear that one day our goodness gas tank will sink to E, leaving us stranded in the middle of Miseryland.
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After much heartbreak, confusion, hours of searching through self-help books, and crying with my friends, I have realized that finding a man is not at all hard to do.
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I’ve become too much yang, and I know this because I am experiencing all the symptoms of “too much yang”: stiffness/tightness, tension, dry skin, stress, anger, and a need to be in control. In fact, the dry skin problem has gotten so bad, I’m going to the dermatologist next week!
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The holidays are over, so this post is kind of useless–except for all you lucky people who have stumbled upon this post via a Google search in winter 2010. I’m here to rescue you from holiday ho-hum sadness! My mood often takes a nosedive during the holidays, and I was quite happy this year. Let’s [...]
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What are the top three things you think you can’t do? Go ahead and think about it. Time moves as quickly or as slowly as you need it to in InternetLand. I bet it didn’t take you long. Whatever it was that came to mind, rest assured that those are exactly the things you must [...]
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