Category: Inspire

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Book Publishing / Inspire

Fulfilling a wish and a goal

A couple of years ago when I started working on my first book, “Mother Knows Best – Wit and Wisdom from Idaho Moms,” one of my main goals was to be able to donate...

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Inspire / Work

Letting the universe work for us

Have you ever had the amazing experience of everything falling into place, unexpectedly, just the way it was supposed to? When it happens, we are filled with gratefulness. Because we never know when weā€™ll...

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Inspire

Rescuing your dreams from the “place that never was”

(source) I recently read a delightful book called ā€œThe Travelerā€™s Gift,ā€by Andy Andrews. It is about David Ponder, a former executive in a Fortune 500 company who now works a part-time minimum wage job...

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Are you a leader? Do you know it?

ā€œIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.ā€ Ā ~ John Quincy Adams Ā  Do you consider yourself a leader? Leaders donā€™t necessarily have...

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Family / Inspire

Lessons from a dad on Father’s Day

In honor of Fatherā€™s Day, Iā€™d like to share some of the ā€˜dadismsā€™ from my father, Pat Murphy, a journalist, writer, political commentator and one of the most interesting people Iā€™ve ever known. Throughout...

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5 thoughts on winning from an Olympic Gold Medalist

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Olympic Gold winning cyclist Kristin Armstrong for a magazine article. Armstrong lives in my home town of Boise, Idaho, and has been called Americaā€™s most decorated professional...

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13 things I learned in 2011

I donā€™t know about you, but 2011 has probably been the most difficult, bittersweet year I can recall. It was a year in which I excitedly published my first book, and then lost my...

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Career Happiness / Inspire

A job loss doesn’t mean a loss of identity

ā€œAll the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.ā€ Ā ~Ā William Shakespeare (photo source)   Often...

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Career Happiness / Inspire

Following the Yellow Brick Road into 2011

ā€œThe road to success is always under construction.ā€ ~ Lily Tomlin Iā€™ve always felt there is a ā€œpathā€ that I am destined to follow in my life and if I just found that path...

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Career Happiness / Inspire / Work

Reverb 10: Achieve

  Todayā€™s prompt is from Tara Sophia Mohr: Achieve. Whatā€™s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine youā€™ll feel when you get it? Free? Happy? Complete? Blissful? Write...

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Family / Inspire

Marshmallows and the meaning of life

The campfire crackles and spits sparks into the black night sky and I watch as the tiny orange dots float up, up, toward the silvery moon and stars, like little fireflies lilting and meandering...

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Family / Inspire

Reverb 10: The power of friendship & family

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” Ā ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge Iā€™m participating in a month-long blogging challenge calledĀ Reverb10 during which I am posting a response to a writing prompt fromĀ 31 different authors. The goal of the...

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Reverb 10 : 5 minutes to remember a year

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.ā€ ~Ā James Matthew Barrie, creator of Peter Pan Iā€™m participating in a month-long blogging challenge calledĀ Reverb10 during which I am posting a response...

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26 expressions of gratefulness

One of my favorite movies is the 1946 holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie centers on George Bailey, a kind man who has always been there to help others, but has grown...

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Career Happiness / Essay / Inspire

The meaning of success

ā€œSuccess means having the courage, the determination, and the will be become the person you believe you were meant to be.ā€ George Sheehan Success…Ā Is it a place we arrive at, or is it made...