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Christmas is Ruined – Part One
The best Christmases have nothing to do with presents and food. Two of the best Christmases I ever had started out with the feeling that Christmas was ruined. Here’s the story of my first wonderful Christmas disappointment.
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Redefining “Financial Power” Rethinking “Financial Freedom”
Financial power. What does that even mean? To most of us “financial power” means: the rules don’t apply. It means: the system bends to your favor. It means: greed and arrogance. It is rarely associated with anything good. And what is financial freedom anyway? Do you have to have financial power in order to have…
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My Happy Checklist
What things do you do that make you really happy? From time to time we get so busy working, being parents, being wives and husbands, that we truly FORGET WHAT MAKES US HAPPY! Here’s what I did to find my happy again! (blog post)
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Using the Truth to Deceive
All too often we cross the line and use the truth to deceive. We leave out pertinent facts, or polish them up and tell ourselves we’re just trying to avoid “being negative”
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Get Your Kicks on Route 66 – Driving the Mother Road
If you’re looking for an awesome 3-5 day road trip, I cannot recommend the stretch from Oklahoma City to Carthage, MO highly enough. Carthage to Springfield was just “ok” – not as much to stop and see. Here’s everything you need to know about the Mother Road – OKC to Springfield MO.
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Don’t eat your peas
Why don’t we recognize and appreciate the full impact of wonderful things in life before we lose them? And why does it sometimes take a loss to make us recognize how bad something was? A bad situation, a bad relationship, a bad boss, etc. Sometimes it takes distance before you can look back and say…
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You intended to harm me…
Somehow even with everything that God has walked me through in my life, I still get scared when I’m going through something and I can’t immediately figure out the “why”. When I’ve tried on every possible “why” scenario I can think of and none of them make sense, I start to panic. When I panic…
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Goodbye Square Squad
So I thought it was all wrapped up in a perfect package. You have Cheap Seats and you have Square Squad. Cheap Seat people come and go, Square Squad people always stay. But nothing in life is a perfect package. What happens when your Square Squad leaves you?
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Keep your eyes down the road
We’ve all been there. Whether we cheated on a diet or ran into an ex while shopping at the mall… one minute you’re cruising along, the wind is in your hair, you’re future focused and happy; and the next it feels like the wheels have come off and you’re sitting on your butt in the…
Richelle Hofer 