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Books that will help you know and understand yourself better so you can be more authentic and true to your inner self and values.

Struggling with your life’s purpose? Read this book.

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BOOK REVIEW Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaiming Your True Nature  by Martha Beck New Release December 27, 2011 “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear” is a truth that will manifest itself over and over as this exciting new book is read and shared and read again.  The number [...]

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Celebrate your personal heroes!

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The recent celebration of Labor Day and the 10th anniversary of 9/11 are good times to think about heroes — those people who have exhibited unusual courage in the face of challenge and hardship. We have national heroes, of course, but we should have personal heroes too, and I challenge you to celebrate the hero [...]

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My personal heroes: The Courage to Age Gracefully

Jim & Betty Herbert

Jim and Betty Herbert   This piece was originally published in The Gratitude Book Project: In Celebration of Personal Heroes, a special, free e-book in commemoration of Sept. 11, 2001. If you have trouble downloading it, email me at eliz…@heartspoken.com and I’ll send it to you.   My mother and father, ages 87 and 93, are [...]

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10-10-10 by Suzy Welch

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Book Review of 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea by Suzy Welch The simple wisdom in this book can be summed up in one sentence: When making decisions, it can be extremely clarifying to consider the potential consequences of the decision in the short term, mid term, and long term (10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years). Since [...]

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Find Yourself When You Remove the Clutter

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“Is what you’re holding onto holding you back?” Introducing Connection Messenger Debbie Bowie, Certified Professional Organizer® It was my remarkable good fortune, while attending my 40th college reunion at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA  (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College), to sit in on a lecture by fellow alumna Debbie Bowie entitled, “Using Feng Shui to Clear [...]

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Change is Good…You Go First!

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The Simple Truths website has lots of great inspirational content, but when I saw the title of the short (3-1/2 minute) video below, I laughed out loud, because it reminded me of the game my brothers used to try to play, “Let’s see who can hit the softest…you go first!” Of course you know how [...]

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“Indelible Ink:” Life-Changing Books

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Book Review: Indelible Ink: 22 Prominent Christian Leaders Discuss Books That Shape Their Faith edited by Scott Larsen with foreword by Philip Yancey I thoroughly enjoyed this book…and for different reasons than I expected. I ordered it because the foreword is by one of my favorite Christian authors, Philip Yancey, and because the title and [...]

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“In the Likeness of God”

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Book Review: In the Likeness of God by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey I’ve been reading this in small doses for a long time, because there’s so much depth and wisdom here. This particular edition (which I read on my Kindle) was actually a special edition combining two of Brand and Yancey’s co-authored works: [...]

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Gratitude: The best medicine for “the blues”

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The Gratitude Book Project: Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude “The Blues” can be like those nasty sticker bushes you sometimes encounter when you’re out taking a walk…they grab you and cling to you… and they hurt! Holidays often play tricks on us…they should be happy times, and often they are, but “the blues” can creep [...]

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Mindfulness leads to Wisdom

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Book Review of Jack Kornfield’s The Wise Heart You don’t have to be a Buddhist to love The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology. In this truly wise book, clinical psychologist and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield weaves together real-life stories with spiritual insights to show how to live with greater [...]

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Are you an artist?

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I explored this question in a guest blog post today for AvoLead, the Abundance Leadership consulting company (I’m proud to add that my sister, Sarah Albritton, is a co-founder and principal of AvoLead). It was inspired by reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin and its e-book companion Insubordination. Read my post here. And then embrace your inner [...]

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