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Black Friday Special: How Wanting What You’ve Got is the Ultimate Key to Gratitude & Happiness

Black Friday Special: How Wanting What You’ve Got is the Ultimate Key to Gratitude & Happiness

I tend to get a little more pensive around the holidays. Maybe it’s the lights, the crispness in the air (yes, even here in Malibu – the high is only 61F today, people! I can’t feel my hands!), the coming together of family and friends to break bread and just be with each other more […]

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How to Make Every Day Your Happily Ever After (The Ultimate Secret)

How to Make Every Day Your Happily Ever After (The Ultimate Secret)

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. – Margaret Bonnano Have you ever bought a really expensive pair of shoes, wore them around the house, and waited for just the “perfect occasion” to take them out on the town to show them off? Were you worried you might scuff them the […]

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What My Arch Enemy Taught me About Constructive Feedback (and how it made me a better person)

What My Arch Enemy Taught me About Constructive Feedback (and how it made me a better person)

If you’ll allow me to toot my own horn for a second (toot, toot – sorry, couldn’t resist. Oh, I’m sorry – did you forget that I’m a nerd?), if there is one thing you can always count on me for, it is that I am great at receiving feedback, no matter the source. In […]

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What Getting Assaulted by a Drunk Woman Taught me About Love

What Getting Assaulted by a Drunk Woman Taught me About Love

  I agonized for weeks over whether I should write this post or not. I almost posted it last week, but then I couldn’t. I didn’t want to re-read it. I didn’t want to relive it. And I wasn’t sure I wanted to even talk about it. Not anymore. But then the deadline for my […]

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And Then There Were Three: The Plus Sign That Changed My Life

And Then There Were Three: The Plus Sign That Changed My Life

*Note: This blog post was written in June, but I waited until now to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed telling the tale. It started out like any other Thursday morning. I got up. I wrote in my gratitude journal (ok, fine, I don’t do that every […]

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The shocking truth about your mind (and how it’s trying to ruin your life)

The shocking truth about your mind (and how it’s trying to ruin your life)

“Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away. ” ― Robert Fulghum Last weekend I went to a self development workshop. We worked on a bunch of stuff (a very technical terms for “concepts”), and though this normally isn’t my […]

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