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Nurturing Inner Confidence

Confidence.  A belief or feeling that you can do it. A trust you have in yourself and your ability or abilities to succeed.   The word confidence gets thrown around in various ways. Means different things to different people, but today, for right now,  this is what I’m referring to.  That confidence that comes from within.  […]

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Embarking on a New Challenge

Today begins yet another personal challenge. The results of which, you should see here over the course of the next month.  Challenges have been a constant for me for the last ten months, having participated in and/or hosted six group challenges.   The coming together, in community, supporting each other in our individual quests to

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Sunrise - fresh starts - Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Fresh Starts

Sometimes little phrases, thoughts, or ideas stick with us, and transform our thinking. One of my favorites is from Anne of Green Gables: “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it….” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables I first read this as a girl. And it stuck with me. The context of the quote,

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Clarity

Clarity.Being Clear on our direction, our purpose. Our goal, our mission. Our big picture. Someone recently said, “no one prays for Clarity.”    Uh, I do. It’s much easier to move in a direction, if we have clarity – a certain degree of visibility – of what we want to do, where we want to be, who we

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The Confidence Challenge

The stories we tell ourselves, repeat over and over in our minds, become stronger.
That’s just biology. How neurons works.
It’s easy to repeat what we believe is safe, repeat the fears, the insecurities, the anxieties.
That’s also how our brains work – to keep us in safety, and to follow the pathways that we’ve built up by repeated use.
But what if…
What if we intentionally set out to build up our confidence pathways.

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