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The Gift of Retreat:Top 10 Reasons to Go to Costa Rica!
I have been facilitating retreats for the past 15 years and the power of getting away can never be overstated. We are so busy with such full lives these days that stepping out of our familiar routines and into the flow of something totally different gives us an opportunity to gain perspective through new surroundings,…
Keep Reading...Best Friends
I had a speaking gig in Baltimore last month that gave me the chance to spend 26 hours with my best friend from college, who now lives in Connecticut. We have gotten together every year for the past 30 years and our friendship has deepened through many life experiences, such as the joyful celebrations of…
Keep Reading...365 Days of Opening to Grace
I completed 365 days of my daily practice of 30 Days to Grace this week. I completed it 30 days at a time and to tell you the truth, it really wasn’t that hard. I initially set out to do just 30 days, but every 30 days I got the opportunity to change my intention, and…
Keep Reading...Keep Walking
A dear friend of mine gave a beautiful Church service last Sunday. We both began our speaking careers 15 years ago and her path took her to ministerial school, which she graduates this month. She is one of the most positive, dedicated and talented people I know and her message that evening, titled Keep Walking…
Keep Reading...Transitions
After giving my 30 Days to Grace program a couple of times this week it occurred to me that nearly every one of the participants was going through some kind of transition. One woman recently lost her husband, another was healing from a serious car accident; and a couple were bracing themselves for the end…
Keep Reading...One Thing at a Time
Tony Schwartz’s book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, dispels the myth that human beings operate most productively in the same one-dimensional way computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time. He says we are most productive when we move between periods of high focus…
Keep Reading...Happy Nurses Week!
Happy Nurses Week! Every year, May 6-12 we take a week out to celebrate nurses, in accordance with Florence Nightengale’s birthday. My favorite quote from Florence is “The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” WOW. Florence…
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