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I want you to do a little spying.  Just start eavesdropping on your own mind.  Susan Hyatt calls this being a scientist of your own life; Martha Beck calls it being ‘the watcher.’  Imagine that you can see all your thinky verbal thoughts running across your brain like the ticker tape at the bottom of […]

A Woman in Labor

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I have a lot of ideas.  My brain is jumping with them, and they’re all so delicious and exciting.  They come to me effortlessly.  I can even do pretty well at sketching out a big-picture strategy.  It’s the details of actually making them happen (what Martha Beck calls Square Three) where I have trouble.  In […]

When to push through your fear…and when to run.

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“I knew it in my gut,” we say.  “I just had a bad feeling.”  Gavin de Becker writes in Protecting The Gift that this little frisson of fear is one of the most powerful intuitive gifts we have.  We override our animal instinct at our peril, and we should nurture it in our children.  But […]

This Ain’t No Rut. This Here’s A Spiral.

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    I have been thinking a lot about getting organized.  I even gave a telecourse on it.  Hellllo, humility!  There’s nothing like teaching something to throw a harsh light on how imperfectly I’m implementing it myself.   Life is moving fast these days, and there’s more clanging and flashing lights and ding-ding-dings than before.      I […]

Don’t Mess With Mama Bear

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  I get squirmy this time of year.  I love my mother, and I adore being a mother to my daughter.  But all the Mother’s Day stuff is so sugary and sentimental it makes my teeth hurt.  Yes, it’s worth noting that mothers can be self-sacrificing and loving and put their children first.  (Otherwise, the […]

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