Category: communication
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Praise
Do you like to receive praise? How does it make you feel? Do you think you receive enough of it? Do we live in a society where praise is usually self serving? How often do you give praise? To others? To God? Is it needed for society to function? There is a lot of insincerity…
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Repetition
Why do we keep repeating behavior that doesn’t work? The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (I didn’t make that up) Many of us are caught in this pattern of behavior. We wonder why nothing changes? Our relationships always go the same way. Ending in…
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Tracks…
This morning had us driving the usual route to the nearest town. Time to pick up food and cash from the bank. The road isn’t good. There are potholes and bumps and large areas where rocks stick out. You have to be alert the entire time. Not only are you watching the road, you have…
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Body Language
Love, excitement,fear, disgust, disinterest…It’s amazing how much information one can glean from body language. We communicate non-verbally all the time. I have been told that I am the master at showing my thoughts with my face and body. And not in a positive way. I show boredom and disgust frequently; when I should control my…
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Perfection
Aging in this society that we live in can be very stressful. We have social ideal that is dictated to us. Even the older models are nipped and tucked and airbrushed to show us what we need to look like at a certain age. They are all a size 0 or 2… A size 4…
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Chicken as Cash…
In Africa quite often the currency is livestock. Usually a chicken. We have been given a few as gifts and as payments for something. It is given out of the goodness and generosity of the heart…quite often to the financial pinch of a poor family. This last week we have received two. It is humbling…
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Repellant
I slather myself with mosquito repellant every evening…they love eating my ankles, and boy do I smell lovely! :). It works and they stay away. How many of us do the same with repelling people? We coat ourselves in an odor of “untouchable” and “unapproachable”…and then wonder why no one will talk to us. We…
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OCD
I wish that i was a little more OCD about cleaning! Can’t stand it! That’s why I have adopted the motto, “a clean house is the sign of a misspent life”! Secretly I know this isn’t true…a clean house is relaxing. I just don’t want to be the one cleaning it. I envy, just a…