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I’ve said, “If I’m not on fire, it’s not urgent.” I mean it.  And I repeat that to myself on a weekly basis.  It is so easy to get wrapped up into a false sense of immediacy.  Another set of words I school myself with frequently are, “I will not be governed by the tyranny…

When I feel like I have to brace myself for the start of the week…I remind myself of all the folks who don’t have the opportunity of another Monday.  It’s a perspective shifter for me, almost instantly. Just breathe. When I operate too long in fifth gear, in over drive, I find my productivity going…

In my book, LIFE BEGINS WHEN YOU DO, published and available exclusively through simpletruths.com – I suggest that you craft your own list of secret medicines. What is healing for you?  What restores your waning energy?  What lifts your spirits? Having a metaphorical medicine cabinet is a brilliant idea.  If you identify the contents when…

Anyone who has followed Steve Jobs with any consistency recognizes the phrase, “one more thing.”  Oh, how we were delighted after his breath taking “next thing” announcements to hear him pause and then say, “But there IS one more thing.” One more thing. Steve Jobs.  Extolled.  Expelled.   Excluded.   Still – he remained excited about…

What are your secret medicines? What are the tools and practices that you can pull out when you are feeling under the weather, overwhelmed or a little run down? These are a few of mine and they are featured in a lovely book that SimpleTruths.com has published called, LIFE BEGINS WHEN YOU DO. In this…

If you could read the metaphorical labels of the cabinet that you open when you need to care for yourself – what would those labels read? In my book, LIFE BEGINS WHEN YOU DO, I share my secret medicines. Here are three and you’ll find more here tomorrow.

We all have a different kind of relationship to the concept of “IF.” For some people, “IF” is frightening.  For others IF represents the best possibilities that lIFe has to offer.   This reflection on IF is borrowed from my book, LIFE BEGINS WHEN YOU DO. It’s available exclusively through SimpleTruths.com and I’m going to…

One of my greatest joys has been watching a friend of mine go from claiming she hasn’t a creative bone in her body – to giving outstanding, beautiful gifts to her friends and family…that she has made! It took her quite a while to remember that she is an artist.  Just as Picasso indicates, she…

This is the January page from my 2012 Datebook/planner.  It is available for sale at maryanneradmacher.net and at brushdance.com Conventional wisdom dictates that if we take small steps toward a large dream or project…those small steps of DOing will eventually end of in realizing the completion of the dream or project.  That’s the DO in…

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