It’s December! I can’t believe that 2019 is almost done when I feel like it just has started. It’s almost like I need to go back to the beginning of the year and try again but this time more slowly. With Christmas happening this month, I like to try to make the theme a bit more Christmassy. That is why I am talking about peace this month. One thing I love about peace is that it encompasses many different topics that we have covered before. For example, it includes gratitude which we covered last November when I interviewed Carolyn about her gratitude. It is amazing that she has been through…
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You Are Not Alone in Motivation
I have always wondered how people can motivate themselves to exercise. When I exercise, it feels good for a moment and then I feel like death has personally invited me to die. Some people find their own motivation to complete spartan races and others find help in the people around them. The latter was the case for Brittanee. Brittanee is a mother of three and loves to build things. She says that while she is a mess in the kitchen, her friends rely on her to help them build and create. She also recently completed a spartan race. A spartan race is like a military obstacle race. It has many…
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It Must Be True Love
Who do we fall in love with? Why do we start to love them in the first place? These are just some questions I have about the person we are trying to find. Some people call them soulmates, others kindred spirits, but when it all comes down to it, it is the person we want to spend the rest of our lives with. Something that both of my grandparents have taught me is that the people we are going to spend our lives with can be anyone. My grandmother and grandfather, Joan and Robert, had known each other for two years before they started dating. They were on a double…
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What Is Love?
What is love? The first thing to come to your mind may be a popular song that was made in the ’90s, but its a topic that has been debated. Some may think that it is just some form of attraction, attachment, or passion. For most of my life, I didn’t know what love was. I knew that I loved my parents, my sisters, and my friends, but besides that, I couldn’t have told you what love was except defining it as “a feeling”. There are so many movies out there that just made me even more confused. I would see many couples fight, not communicate, or just run away…
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4 Things I Learned Last Year
It has crossed my mind many times just how much each topic I have written about in the past five months have related to each other. As I considered this, I often wondered if connecting the topics together would result in a bigger learning opportunity and teach me more about each topic. For those who don’t know, so far we have talked about courage, creativity, gratitude, hope, and finally change. At first, when I was looking at each of the topics I was going to write about it didn’t seem as though any of these would cross over into the other categories. But as I started writing each topic, I…
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How Do You Define Gratitude?
“It was on the second of January and we wanted to go back and return our printer.” That’s how this story starts: in a new year, on slick roads. Carolyn was driving with her husband after a new year had started. To her, it probably seemed as though they were just doing a task, but an accident was about to happen. “We were heading to Salt Lake. We were in the middle of nowhere. I was told that a bicycle came and swung into my lane of traffic and I swerved to get out of his way. I swerved into traffic and then I swerved to get back in my…
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The Secret of Gratitude
I don’t remember much of when I was little. I’ll remember things here and there, but I never know where they belong. Sometimes I wonder about some of the things I forgot. Did I ever have a moment when I had a talk with my sisters and we bonded over that? It’s almost like life takes over and suddenly you are stuck wondering what you may have missed. What happiness did you forget? I seem to remember the bad things. I remember a friend who never liked me, a teacher who seemed out to get me, and times when I wondered if I would ever get anywhere in life. The…