Cleaning House

Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… In my experience it’s crucial to keep a clean house. It’s so easy to collect “stuff” and much harder to let it go. Despite my best intentions I seem to accumulate small piles until suddenly I have to stop everything to toss and straighten up. I wish I could make it easier on...

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Creating New Circles of Friends

Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary I love living in CA but I do miss my friends back east. I’ve made a few new friends but it takes time to really get to know someone and develop a level of trust. Still I am looking forward to expanding my friendship circles. I’ll keep doing what I enjoy and expect that new friends will come into my...

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Embracing My Fears

Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary What would it be like if I could turn my feelings of fear into feelings of excitement? Public speaking is a major fear for many people and I am certainly one of them. Rather than hide this fear I decided to confront it by attending a meeting of Toastmasters. I’ve made the decision that I will step out...

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Despite The Fear

Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… We sat close to each other in the booth as we shared our Chinese food. My dear friend is going through a major transition, and desperately wants to end her long term marriage. She admits she has been unhappy for most of that time and after years of counseling and recent anti depression...

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New Learning Curves

Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary This week was the beginning of learning a lot of new things all of which are outside of my comfort zone. This included my new job activities many of which require outside training as well as the new arena of TV production I’ve just stepped into. Today we spent time in the editing room reviewing the...

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Changing from Me to We

Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… It’s hard to remember that none of us are the center of the universe although everything we do and say has a central impact on the world around us. Today, watch yourself as if you are an outside observer to see much of your day is self focused. Try shifting to thinking more about...

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