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Blog #728: Do You See Both?

by Ana | January 22, 2026 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

"Where am I?""Where do I want to be?" Two questions honored with honest answers. ______ Do you know yours? When I sincerely assess my life with heart, mind, and time…I see two photos of myself as I look into myself. Photo #1: I see what I love about my life. It’s good...

Blog #727: The Ones That Haunt

by Ana | January 15, 2026 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

Maybe…We screwed up big in life a couple of times. And maybe…Those moments still haunt our core. (If you relate, I wrote this blog for YOU.) ______ Brutally bad decisions come in many forms. Some majors? She totaled her car.She missed her insurance payment.She has...

Blog #726: An Email from “Dude”

by Ana | January 8, 2026 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

Ready or not...Our 2026 adventure has begun! What will you create this year? Change?Consistency?Opportunity?Inspiration?Happiness?Harmony?Health? ______ Choose one. Or two.Or three. Or choose all seven. As you begin to ponder and plan 2026...Let me nudge your brain...

Blog #725: My 2026 Secret?

by Ana | January 1, 2026 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

It goes by too fast. I graduated from college in 1985.It's 2026. That's 41 short years. ______ It seems... A new calendar gets tacked up more quickly the older I get. I often feel the quick movement of time. And life. That's why many of my blogs are extra direct. I...

Blog #724: My Letter to Santa

by Ana | December 25, 2025 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

In this blog on Thursdays... I often share emails I writein response to emails I receive. But this week... I'm sharing an email I'm initiating.It's to a guy named Santa. ______ Me writing to Santa? Can we ever be too old to wish for a bit of magic in our lives? I...

Blog #723: One Last One

by Ana | December 18, 2025 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

Over the years that I've written this blog… My heart has been pincheda few times by readers’ emails. But the email below pinchedharder than any I’ve ever received. ______ My friend Shawn, You are my friend, though we’ve never met. We’ve bonded over the years through...

Blog #722: My Race Against the Clock

by Ana | December 11, 2025 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

Two nights ago…I was urgently racing the clock. I hadn't finished my book. ______ I had checked out an e-book from the library. It's perhaps uncommon knowledge that e-books CAN be borrowed from the public library. It's my #1 way to access books. For this book... I had...

Blog #721: The Greatest Balancing Act of All

by Ana | December 4, 2025 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

"What do you want?" It's a seemingly easy question...Yet the answer rarely is. ______ There are two directions to go with this answer. 1. The head's answer. It whispers of the immediate, the pressing, the needed, and the crushing. "I want to get the shopping done. And...

Blog #720: This One Is For YOU

by Ana | November 27, 2025 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

It's Thursday.It's Thanksgiving. Two reasons I'm grateful today. For YOU. ______ #1: You show up here. I'm hugely aware that in 2025's crazy information-overload climate, you have a billion ways to spend your online reading time. But you show up here on Thursdays....

Blog #719: Yelling Screaming Shouting

by Ana | November 20, 2025 | Blog Post | 0 Comments

How do I keep going through disappointment? (Read on.) ______ A reader’s question… I have paid lots of money to attend too many failed motivational seminars and read too many books that were supposed to change my life. Most got me nowhere but more debt. Success is not...

Blog #531: Hard, Cold and Mean

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I don't have a crystal ball...but I can often predict a person's future. Before I explain... I've returned from sailing across the Pacific...and during my sea days from San Francisco to Hawaii and back, I did walk 100 miles on the ocean. How'd I do that? 16 laps on...

Blog #530: I Saw Him…Again

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A seagull. For me...He started everything. I had just graduated from Berkeley. I had nothing lined up job wise after graduating, Within days after returning home, I was told emphatically, "You aren't staying here!" With nowhere to go... I caught a bus to San Diego.I...

Blog #529: 2,000 Miles In the Middle

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As you read this...I'm 2,000 miles off the coast of California. In the middle of the ocean. However... Because of touch-and-go Internet in the middle of the Pacific...I'm writing this blog one week BEFORE you read it and I leave. On March 27... I will leave San...

Blog #528: Now…the Rest of the Story

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If you've read me long...you know I've walked across several countries. I'm at eight. None of them have been cakewalks...but my most recent walk in 2021 was extra hard for me to even get to the starting line. I'm now brave enough to tell the rest of the story. ______...

Blog #527: Bitter, Sour, Salty

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The cutie hiding in the blanket?Meet an awesome little dog named "EMi." She's a "relisher." A "relisher"? "It's one who sees and celebrates life's simple moments." EMi does that. Let me share how breakfast and dinner play out. After every meal, EMi goes into "That was...

Blog #526: She Hasn’t Read This…YET

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"Dear Mr. Shawn,"(That's how her email begins.) I heard you speak when you came to Bacolod and have read your emails since then. I've learned a lot from you and print out your emails and share them with my coworkers. I would like to ask for your help. I'm a single mom...