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A feel-good morning microblog of uplifting insights and inspiration from long-time life coach, career counselor, existential adventurer, and award-winning resume writer, Cliff Flamer
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These past 2 weeks have been totally different. Molly’s out traveling through the jungles of Japan with Evaline, our oldest, and I’ve been single-parenting Hazel, our youngest. I stayed home so that Molly and Evs could travel without a clock, without havi…
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There’s this thing called a Personality Disorder which describes people with very little or no empathy who only think of themselves, need to be the center of attention, and put little focus on sustaining relationships unless they benefit from them directly.
Alth…
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All the books, all the podcasts, they’ll tell you the different ways you can improve, strategies to make yourself become truly alive. So much emphasis on striving, not settling for less than the moon and the rocket ship, when so many of us are just barely getti…
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I have a little tickle in my throat, a wheeze in my breath, and I’m pretty stoked.
Here’s why.
Today’s been a down day full of defeated rants and negative self-talk. (Yes, even us die-hard optimists go there!) Things seem insurmountable, everything o…
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It’s sad, indeed.
As you sit on your sunny mountaintop, back and knees sore, you look down at the traffic in the valley. From up here, you can see everything, even the things the drivers can’t see, like those dark clouds on the horizon and the winds picki…
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Here’s a little test for you.
When you’re away from work and wrapped up in something else, the next time your email notification sound goes off on your phone, stop and notice what happens to you. What emotion pops up?
Anxiety? Joy? Wonder? Dread? Resentment?…
I can’t live without you.
A refrain echoed in the heart’s of anyone who has loved past their limits.
But isn’t this untrue? It’s quite the opposite really: I love you so hard, you make me want to live.
Fiery red love – and not just romantic love, a lov…
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We’ve had rats. It’s been an adventure. I’ll leave it at that.
Anyone who’s had rats knows that scratching sound in the walls, a tiny little noise that makes you want to open up the wall with an ax or burn the whole friggin’ house down.
Thi…
9am the 2nd Wednesday of the month. And you know what that means!
Everyone up and down Mira Vista Ave has to move their cars to the other side of the street to make way for the street sweeper.
It’d be entertaining to watch a time-elapsed video of all the people, in robes, wit…
Shaming doesn’t get us anywhere.
That’s what we tell children, yet as adults we don’t play by the same rules.
Worse still, we shame through our fingertips – not our voices – tapping out one letter at a time in private, safely tucked away from the impac…