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10 Life Choices We Will All Regret in 10 Years (if We Aren’t Careful)

“If only
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8 Wake-Up Calls You Really Need to Receive in Life Before it’s Too Late

You have come a long way, and you’re still learning and growing. Be thankful for the lessons. Take them and make the best of things today. For my 18th birthday, many moons ago, my grandfather on my mom’s side gave me four lightly-used flannel shirts that he no longer needed. The shirts were barely worn [
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10 Things Everyone Always Waits Too Long to Let Go of in Life

We don’t even realize how often we block our own present blessings by holding on so tightly. Letting go is not giving up. Letting go is surrendering any needless attachments to particular outcomes and situations. Surrender means showing up in your life with the intention to be your best, and to do the best you [
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8 Wake-Up Calls Everybody Needs to Receive in Life Before it’s Too Late

You have come a long way, and you’re still learning and growing. Be thankful for the lessons. Take them and make the best of things today. For my 18th birthday, many moons ago, my grandfather on my mom’s side gave me four lightly-used flannel shirts that he no longer needed. The shirts were barely worn [
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10 Things We Always Wait Way Too Long to Let Go of in Life

We don’t even realize how often we’re blocking our own present blessings by holding on so tightly. Letting go is not giving up. Letting go is surrendering any needless attachments to particular outcomes and situations. Surrender means showing up in your life with the intention to be your best, and to do the best you [
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20 Things My Now 81-Year-Old Dad Was Right About

“One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming.” — MHN Twenty-nine years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher gave my class a homework assignment entitled, “Advice for a Younger Generation.” The concept of the assignment was simple: Each student had to interview a [
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3 Fundamental Lessons Most People Learn a Little Too Late in Life

“In elementary school my parents told me it didn’t matter what I did when I grew up, so long as it made me happy. ‘Happiness is the whole point of life,’ my father said. ‘But it doesn’t always come easy. Your mother loves to help people in need, so she became a psychiatric nurse. I [
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10 Great Reasons to Let Go of Things Sooner Rather than Later

The most powerful changes happen when we decide to take control of what we do have power over, instead of craving control over what we do not. Holding on is hard. Holding on contributes to stress, unhappiness, relationship problems, and so much more. Yet, as human beings, we cling desperately to almost everything
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20 Things My 90-Year-Old Grandmother Told Me to Stop Worrying About So Much

Worry gives small things a big shadow. Some people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. Don’t be one of them. Don’t wait until your life is almost over to realize how good it has been. The secret to happiness and peace on [
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Weekend Favorites: decluttering rules, 7 social media boundaries, and overthinking

Weekend Wisdom: Owning less is gentler than organizing more. Cosmos! What’s making me smile lately: Saturday mornings at the farmer’s market, getting ready for the Tiny Step Simplicity Challenge (hope you join me), watering my plants, going to bed early, iced coffee, a road trip and beautiful flowers. Maybe it really is the little things [
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