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I’m not complaining or whining, but being complaint free is hard. Since we have to start over again if we complain, I’m on Day Three of Day One. That’s not even counting the times I’ve complained (and loudly) inside my head. Today was one big complaint, inside and outside my head. Idiot drivers! How could the woman picking up her…
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Ah, yes. This seems quite in line with our challenge. Changing the direction of our intention, our focus. Take five minutes and twenty-four seconds out of your Busy Me Day to watch and listen. Right about now, this was just what I needed. You? What about me? to What about YOU? Change me for you. [Seen here.]
Interesting how the web works. Kind of like….a web. Marilyn commented on my complaint-free post and I read her post about that post which led me to another post, which led me to this very interesting post about "specific moral standards for communication." Ah, the webs we weave with posts. From down that path of posts, this from Prospero’s Books:…
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Christine Kane has issued a challenge that I love, love, love: "being complaint-free, criticism-free, whine-free, and gossip-free" for 35 days. For the sake of poetic license, let’s make it 37 days. Are you in? Read her post here for all the gory details.
Years ago, when I started my own business, I was quickly swamped by details–phone calls to make, interviews to set up for articles I was writing, lots of travel arrangements, invoicing. I hired a virtual assistant, a fantastic woman who lived near Dallas. We worked together for years before ever meeting in person. When I moved to North Carolina and…
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I’ve been home for weeks now. And yet, today, I’m packing my rollaboard happy wagon full of organic free-trade soy moisturizer not tested on animals and Badger Sleep Balm (addiction alert), all in 3.4 ounce bottles in preparation for my very first trip to Calgary. Whenever I pack for a trip, I’m always reminded of Amelia Earhart’s words, "There is…
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This thimble is full–to the brim–I’d say it’s nigh onto overflowing–with the amount of knowledge I possess about the technology of blogging, websites, how email works, digital ethnography, what makes a refrigerator cold, how the telephone does its happy magic, you name it. That is all to say that I was attempting a simple blog change tonight so you could…
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This blog began as a result of a death. Diagnosed with lung cancer, my stepfather died 37 days later, leading me on a journey to explore and question what I would do if I had 37 days left to live. The answer was, in part, to write these essays as a leave-taking for my two young girls, to provide them…
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There is really nothing I like more than getting mail. Real mail. Not "Dear Homeowner" or "Resident" or anything with letters remotely resembling I.R.S. on the envelope, but honest-to-god envelopes with handwriting on them, the kind where someone far, far away picks up a pen with one hand, turns the envelope slightly to the appropriate angle, depending–of course–on the right-or-left-handedness…
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Hypothetical question. You’ve written a blog for three years. Let’s say it’s called 37days. A publisher wants to make a book out of 37 of the essays from the blog. What’s the title of the book? What’s the subtitle? What would stand out on the shelf and tell in an instant what the book is about? What do you think…
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Patti Digh is the author of six books, including bestsellers Life is a Verb and Creative is a Verb. She travels the world teaching others about mindfulness: to live fully, love well, let go deeply, and make a difference. Patti's comments have appeared on PBS and in The New York Times, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the London Financial Times, and many other international publications. She writes a thank you note every morning.
