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Continue reading →: Transform Your Perspective for Goal Achievement (How my Search for a New Rug Led to New Insights)Sometimes all it takes is a new perspective to help you accomplish your goals. My recent experience searching for a new area rug for my living room reminded me of this very important fact. My partner and I have been living in our current space for over two years. It’s…
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Continue reading →: Revising Your Goals: A Key to Success
This past Sunday was the Chicago marathon. I shared in a previous post that I was training for my third Chicago marathon (and 7th overall) for the sole purpose of fundraising for Girls in the Game, an organization here in Chicago that I love. The last time I ran the…
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Continue reading →: More Important Than a Cellphone
I recently posted on social media about the need to normalize doing “nothing.” Throughout the world, there are cultures who value and prioritize the need for downtime and rest. These traditions honor this simple truth: humans benefit from regular opportunities to recharge. Let’s take a look at how other cultures…
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Continue reading →: The Power of Community
I think one of the best things that we learned about ourselves during the COVID-19 pandemic was just how much we needed to be around other people. While in the beginning it might have been nice to finally have some time to ourselves or with our direct family or loved…
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Continue reading →: How to Eat an Elephant
I am currently training for the Chicago marathon (which you can read more about here), and have hit the part of the training schedule where my training runs hit double digits on a weekly basis. So it’s not surprising that I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to…
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Continue reading →: Why I Make the Bed
There is a lot in life that I know I can’t control. Over the years, I have become adept at understanding what lies in the circle of my control versus what lies outside of it. Truth be told, there is way more that lies outside of my control than within…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Ignore the Elephant in the Room
Before I became a life coach, business consultant, and special education advocate, I was a classroom teacher. Specifically, I was a special education teacher who taught for over 20 years. While I was also dual-licensed in English for grades 6-12 and spent six years teaching high school, the majority of…
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Continue reading →: Happy Disability Pride Month!
Did you know that July is Disability Pride Month? If you didn’t, you aren’t alone. While there have been Disability Pride celebrations going back to the very first one held in Boston in 1990, it is not as widely recognized or observed as Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian…
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Continue reading →: This Marathon of Life
A fun fact about me that I haven’t really talked about in this space is that I am a runner. I write a lot about running on my other blog, ” Words from the Long Run,” which I guess would be expected with a name such as that, right? However,…


