Whenever I am talking to someone who is indicating that they are ready to quit something, I always ask the following, “Are You Being Sandpapered?” In order for a piece of wood to become something beautiful like a table or door, the wood must be sandpapered. The process of sandpapering the wood is difficult, it…

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I have come to believe that the word “no” is one of hardest words for most humans to use. I am certainly one of those humans. At the root of the human soul is a desire to please others. For some of us this desire to please actually controls much of what we do and…

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This will be a different type of blog than our previous discussions on the weekly topic.  It would be inauthentic for me to write a blog that gives you all the tips and tricks of how I have mastered mental exhaustion. It would be inauthentic because mental exhaustion is the battle I fight every day.…

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I call my son the perfection of an imperfect journey. There is no phrase that better describes how I feel about being his mom and the journey that we have taken together. Most would believe that getting pregnant at sixteen would be a failure too great to overcome; but that’s the thing about failure, it’s…

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