‘Failure is the condiment that gives success it’s flavor.’ ~Truman Capote Are you still afraid to fail? You won’t taste success until you do. Add a little sugar and spice to your story. This post is part of a 31 day series. I promise to return to my regularly irregular and non-cohesive posting in November. For my first 31 day…
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31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 4} Don’t be afraid to fail
Guilt speaks loud and long into the hearts of women, but perfectionism is the quiet gossip in the corner who speaks lies and half-truths that sound just close enough to the facts to keep us listening. I don’t consider myself a perfectionist in the traditional sense. Unlike my Type A friends, I have a certain lack of attention to detail…
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31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 3} Silence the voice of guilt
There are as many reasons for living within limitations as there are personalities, but as I’ve talked and read and listened to what women are saying about living free, I’ve found similar themes. Sometimes we’ve had poor role models, or we’ve lived under legalism, or we simply don’t know where to start. I’ve found that the best place to start…
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31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 2} Who makes the rules anyway?
‘The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.’ ~Ayn Rand Nearly everything I’ve ever believed or thought or lived has been the complete opposite of Rand’s sentiment. There have been times when I would have given my left eyeball to understand that kind of freedom. Let me say here, that I do…
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31 Days to Finding Freedom: {Day 1} A Start
When I mentioned to my husband that I was thinking of writing for 31 days on finding freedom, he said ‘What exactly does that mean? That could be anything. You could be writing for 31 days on being an American!’ He then grinned and mumbled something about ‘finding freedom in the bedroom’, which I won’t repeat because I pretended not…
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