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Category: Daily Spark

  • Daily Spark: In Order to Heal

    Karen Salmansohn said, “When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, you know you have healed.” I think I have a ways to go then!

  • Daily Spark: Be Gentle With Yourself

    “Embracing failure can lead to invaluable lessons, foster innovation, and build resilience.   Failure should be viewed as a crucial component of success.” Scott McKain

  • Daily Spark: You Are Not an Afterthought

    “No one leaves here alive, so please stop treating yourself as an afterthought,” says the actor Anthony Hopkins.

  • Daily Spark: Keep Standing

    Watching a toddler practice over and over at standing this week, and seeing them just brushing themselves off and trying again and again, gave me cause to look at my own failure / success mindset!

  • Daily Spark: Freedom and Frameworks

     Normal Vincent Peale said, “Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”

  • Daily Spark: You Are the Window

    “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world,” George Bernard Shaw

  • Daily Spark: Just the Weather

    Pema Chadron said, “You are the sky.  Everything else – it’s just the weather.” I use that like a mantra when meditating.

  • Daily Spark: Lost Sometimes

    I think there are periods in all of our lives where we feel lost, rudderless, challenged beyond what we think is our ability to bear, and are just trying to find some hope, some peace, something to hold onto.

  • Daily Spark: Gonna Be Alright

    Reassuring myself starts with the help of a higher power, with the help of connecting to my centered inner self, and reinforcing to myself that it will be alright.  Bob Marley famously sang, “Don’t you worry, ’bout a thing, cause every little thing, is gonna be alright.”

  • Daily Spark: Joy Sneaks In

    “Joy does not arrive with a fanfare, on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life.  Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee, watching the sun hit your favorite tree, just right.” Donna Ashworth