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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...

#507: Question Two is the One

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Each day...there are TWO miles we can choose to walk. The FIRST mile.The EXTRA mile. The FIRST mile is the 5,280 feet that life requires us to walk every day - as parents, friends, spouses, partners, employees, bosses, bill payers, pet owners...and in checking off the...

#506: I Didn’t See That Coming

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"Go the Extra Mile." If you've read, heard or know me...you know the extra-mile message is my thing. I wrote Extra Mile America: Stories of Inspiration, Possibility and Purpose. I created a non-profit called Extra Mile America. This newsletter is called Extra Mile...

#505: Twisting Turning Twins

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Within 51 minutes...my inbox was met with two vastly different emails. At 8:37...someone was sharing the most euphoric news of her life.At 9:28...someone else was living the most brutal moments of her life. One was crazy emotional...up.One was crazy emotional...down....

#504: A Traveling Fly Hotel

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In 2018... I staggered across Italy in sneakers...walking 375 miles from Milan to Rome. Before I started leaving footprints in the Italian countryside, I thought:"This walk will be my most amazing adventure yet!" On paper, it definitely had all the makings. The magic...

#503: What Am I Going To Be?

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I confess...I've spent a lifetime pondering the question. "What am I going to be when I grow up?" In elementary school...I was sure I was going to be an animal photographer and take pictures of all the dogs at dog shows. In middle school... I became a good golfer, and...

#502: Follow Your Knows

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What good does it do...if we don't DO what we know? My quirky stumbles often find their way into Extra Mile Thursday. Like today. So let's start with three things I know about a particular pair of exercise shorts. 1. I know it has short pockets.2. I know things have...