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Live the Life You Imagined
I started reading last month’s issue of Sunset Magazine, and I have to say that several different segments are resonating with me.
First, there was the “From the Editor” letter about the American tendency to set resolutions focused on self-improvement. She speculates that thinking about our lives as “another task to be executed” thwarts our attempts to find true contentment. She says, “adding on yet another layer of self-improvement isn’t what will make us happy.” Instead, she decides to be more present in the moment and enjoy life around her.
I am definitely guilty of living a task-oriented life. In fact, I am probably at the extreme … Read More
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Let the [Construction] Games Begin
We closed on our construction loan! We are officially building a house!What a long road this process has been. We first met the builders more than two years ago to tour one of their houses and learn about their process (when we only had $84 in our account called “The Dream”).I had lots of trepidation about the crime rates in the area where we bought the land (I still get daily updates from SpotCrime), but everything about this move feels so right. I keep meeting more and more awesome families in the neighborhood, and I am over-the-moon excited that Henry will get to grow up on a… Read More -
Dreaming Big: A Strategy for Starting Small
The other day, I created a Google Form to solicit information for our Staff Directory. I asked the basic questions (name, birthday, address, phone number, etc.) but then decided to include more personal questions, since we’re all new to the organization. I asked “What’s something no one would ever suspect about you?” (My answer involved something about thinking I had prostate cancer when I was in the 7th grade.). I also asked the standard, “What are three adjectives that describe you?” One of my adjectives was “willing to dream big and do something about it.”It was interesting to me that my adjectives have changed over the years. In college,… Read More
