Category: Life Skills
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My name is Authenticity
Years ago, my social worker friend and I drove to a First Nations community in Alberta. Along the way she shared with me stories, the loss of her husband when she was in her twenties, her relationship with her mom. She told her stories like it was possible for me to experience. I was touched,…
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HAPPINESS is WITHIN YOU
I wish you happiness! Elbert Hubbard, a well-known American writer, and philosopher, said “Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” This means you have control over your happiness. You can train yourself to be happy. The most important thing to understand is happiness like, a spark can ignite into something big within you. Don’t wait…
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Sunday LIVING INTO THE FUTURE
Over the summer, a technique I learned about in a course was how to live into your future. We started with setting a date we want to accomplish something, and then you reverse engineer what you hope to accomplish by that date backwards until you reach today’s date. For example, my friend Wants an organic…
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 