Category: Miscellaneous
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Commit
I’m sitting in my car in the dark under a street lamp in a shopping centre parking lot. This is my last stop before I finally get to head home and relax, after driving too many hundreds of kilometres up-Island and then down and back up, on Vancouver Island. Here’s a little hint about what…
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44:40 : I Strongly Urge People To Have a Daily Blog
The Daily Blog In listening to two of my favourite people online, at the 44:40 point in this Chase Jarvis video interview with Seth Godin, you will hear Seth say, “I strongly urge people to have a blog; a daily blog.” I watched this video a few times, when it was published in 2016,…
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The Day Jann Arden Came To My House (in a dream)
In My Dreams Fact. 8 AM’ish and this JUST happened. Too funny. I just had a dream that Jann Arden came into my basement suite. (I don’t live in one) She was talking in the phone about booking a trip to Nashville to someone in the room next door. The room was attached to my suite…
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I Disappoint People Every Day
Disappointing People and Disappointing People Many many years ago (maybe about 24 years?) when I was going through some challenging times, I was chatting with someone that I really admired, and she told me, “Brenda, I disappoint people every day.” Of course, I was kind of shocked, as I saw this person as a leader, and one of the…
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An Old Blog Post in Drafts
I pulled this out of the drafts folder from long long ago, it’s maybe years ago that wrote it? It was time to click publish: OK. So you go 2 a party. You sit there. You wait. Maybe even stand against a wall, or look out the window, or drink wine or eat cheese and…
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Vancouver Island RAIN
‘tis the season. The beauty of Vancouver Island is a daily “ahhhhh” no matter where you go, no matter the time of year. It truly is a visual paradise. Fall brings rain. And more rain. And usually, more rain. What a perfect way to celebrate my love of the abstract, in art and photography.
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Fall Colors
Fall brings a color palette rich with life; orange and red and yellow along with a multitude of varied greens, which are a welcomed sight on Vancouver Island in the fall, which can be overwhelmed by gray gray gray.
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October 17th : 5 Days 5 Seconds 5 Goals
This is Day 2 of making myself accountable (to myself) for 5 days in a row, using The 5 Second Rule. I’ll continue on from yesterday with my goals below, and will say that, even though these are tiny goals, putting it out there publicly is scary. People will judge, and they do, and people…
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October 16th : 5 Days 5 Seconds 5 Goals
Today, October 16th, is Day 1 of making myself accountable with my 5 Days 5 Seconds 5 Goals Here are my 5+ goals for today and later I will post about how I did: Make a call to someone (or issue) difficult to deal with (I have 4 of these on my to do list) Make a…
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5 Days 5 Seconds 5 Goals
Very early yesterday morning I wrote the most amazing blog post; really amazing. You know when you are totally in the zone? I had composed a very lengthy (and amazing 🙂 post, with several external links to brilliance elsewhere online and also had embedded a video, all while still propped up in bed as inspiration…