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My Cousin Angela

by Ray_anne
Angela

It is 11:30pm and I am in a Marriott Hotel in open-sky confines of Utah.  I just returned from my cousin Angela’s wedding reception.   Angela was my best friend growing up. This is my Cousin Angie’s Story of Survival… When I was a senior in High School, I worked in a little dress shop [...]

May 11, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Our Vital Life Force

by Ray_anne
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Sometimes, we meet people who make a difference in our day.  In our lives.   I made a new friend this morning at my local Starbucks.  His name was Loren. The coffee shop was more crowded than usual and as I worked my way through the crowd to find an open chair, it was the [...]

April 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

People Development vs. Product Development. Can YOU make a difference?

by Ray_anne
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People Development   I once climbed a hill – not a mountain, but not an insignificant hill. And as I stood at the top and had a 360° view of the world below me – the view was staggering.  I always hope I will see something wonderful when given an opportunity but the splendor and [...]

March 29, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Persistency: The Difference Between Failure and Success

by Ray_anne
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Persistency –noun 1. the act or fact of persisting. 2. the quality of being persistent 3. continued existence or occurrence 4. the continuance of an effect after its cause is removed. -synonym Perseverance I once sat on a smooth rock and watched the sun set over Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. It was perhaps [...]

February 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Happiness: Does Your Career Define Who You Are?

by Ray_anne
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Are you happy? Do you have the time or impetus to find happiness in your life? Sometimes we get so caught up in just getting by from day to day that we lose the big picture. The big picture of being content, of feeling settled, of finding our place – the place that feeds into [...]

February 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

LIVE during the Dash

by Ray_anne
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Have you heard about your dash?  As in, How’s your dash going?  In this instance, your dash represents the mark on your tombstone that separates your date of birth from your date of death. In other words, it represents your life, the part during your existence in which you lived on earth. And while it’s weird [...]

January 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Facebook and Love. Not necessarily in that order…

by Ray_anne
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  I have been threatening to write this post for a while.  Why has it taken me so long? Because this story is living, it is breathing, and it continues to evolve.  But I can no longer “not” write it.  It is written indelibly across my heart, to be sure.  Loving someone has never been [...]

January 13, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Removing the Wedge

by Ray_anne
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When I was twenty-seven years old, my parents divorced. It was a difficult time, I thought my parents would always be together. But change happens, it is the one constant. And with that change came many others. I doubted myself and my own marriage. I questioned who I was and underneath it all, I found reasons [...]

January 5, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Whew! What a Year…. 2011!

by Ray_anne
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I know it…, I can’t believe it either.  Where did 2011 go?  It seems to have flown by, but when I look back at it realistically?  There was a heckuva lot packed into those 365 days.  And I am kinda glad 2012 will have one more day in it than 2011. What will you do [...]

December 29, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Falling Out of Love (with blogging)

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

One day it happened.  I fell out of love. . . with blogging. For the past four years, blogging has been a passion, a point of inspiration for me and my business.  But lately blogging has become more of a chore, an action, a requirement, and something that is expected.  Over the last month, I’ve [...]

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