Obstacles to Moving Forward…Transitions

January 28, 2008

“Obstacles cannot crush me.Every obstacle yeilds to stern resolve. He who is fixed to  a star does not change his mind” Leonardo DaVinci “Obstacles are the frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal” Henry Ford It’s a winter wonderland here. We have lots of snow and the roads are challenging to [...]

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How to Avoid The Blogger Crankies…Or Transitioning from out there to OUT THERE

January 23, 2008

Remember when you went from junior high school to high school? I do. I wore the wrong skirt. Well, since this blog is all about transition and the grief that can accompany transition, today is a day for me to have the crankies over going a new “school”. That school being, the cyber school, the [...]

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Hey, stop that Head Chatter…defeat the enemy in your head

January 22, 2008

Overthinking….head chatter, the “gremlin”, the enemy in your head. We all know what that overthinking is like, we have all experienced, we all have different methods of managing that negative head chatter. Albert Ellis, the developer of , Rational emotive behavior therapy, focused his work on DISPUTING those negative statements. His method is the ABCDE method [...]

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Poor Me, Poor Me, Pour Me another Drink, or Hand Over the Pint of Double Fudge Ice Cream

January 16, 2008

  What’s wrong with me? Why am I so unhappy? Why did she look at me that way? What did I do wrong? Was it something I said? What will happen if…. Mental scripts of a woman’s mind? Rolling negative thoughts, feelings, and perceptions can be an indicator that OVERTHINKING is at work. The downside [...]

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Happiness Unveiled: It’s Up to 40 % of what YOU do !

January 13, 2008

Great new book on the market by Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want !!! The psychological community has been waiting for this treasure to “come out” and wow, we have not been let down. The BEST NEWS is that she has integrated research and theory so [...]

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Stop those Habits ! And tips on how…

January 7, 2008

Suspect that title was a cheap shot, but well, I am a bit feisty now that the season of the “cold” is over. Been reading some fascinating research coming out of Florida State University by Dr. Roy Baumeister on Self Regulation…ie managing what seems unmanageable…ie those nasty habits that seem to control us: overeating, over [...]

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Widows: Five Warning Signs for Internet Dating !

January 5, 2008

How crazy was THAT suggestion? Yup, a friend suggest I submit my “profile” to an online dating service, you know the drill…well, if you don’t, it’s worth a try. I am so glad I did…even if there were some interesting complications before I met a Prince of a Man. My first foray into the world [...]

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Welcome to 2008…Countdown

December 31, 2007

I am cranky.  I have a cold…when I have a cold I act as if I have the plague… But, tomorrow is ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE DAYS of the year. It’s a day to dream, to foreward think, to visualize what the next year will  be like. So, tomorrow, I will get up [...]

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Caution : Transition Ahead

December 23, 2007

Mark Twain is attributed as saying  ” the only thing that likes change is a wet baby.” (I for one saw it on a bumper sticker years ago and have never forgotten it.) With every change comes a transition, moving from one phase, state, or condition to another. We spend our lives in transitions, and [...]

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Buy This Book ! Thanks, Robert Emmons, PhD

December 22, 2007

In the midst of a transition or life challenge oftentimes it’s hard to think of the “upside”, in fact, at certain times, when people reminded me of the upside during certain “bad periods” I wanted to hit him or her “upside the head.” Well, Robert Emmons, Ph.D., has written a remarkable book on the empirical [...]

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