#35 Days of Dares #23 Dare to Travel With Others We all need people we can count on, learn from and walk beside. When we’ve been hurt or disappointed with others, it’s difficult at times to trust again. I’m fortunate enough to have friends I’ve known more than half my life. They are the ones […]
#35 Days of Dares #19 Dare to Get Past Rejection or Criticism You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury) We’ve all experienced rejection and criticism. No one likes it. At all. That feeling of your inner self being ripped apart and exposed in all its pain is excruciating. […]
#35 Days of Dares #18 Dare to Be Brave Being brave is not about never feeling scared. I don’t know how many times my body has frozen rigid in fear and yet stepped out to do something brave. I like this quote by Nelson Mandela: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, […]
#35 Days of Dares #9 Dare to Share Give yourself away you find yourself. Share your love, time, money, skills, words, friendship and so on, your life will be richer. Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Brontë If you live in Australia like I do, you’ve won the […]
#35 Days of Dares #6 Dare to Decide In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt Whenever I go to restaurant with a lengthy menu, my husband groans. He usually […]
35 Days of Dares #5 Dare to Dream Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true. Ralph Marston When your dreams get crushed by rejection, criticism or failure it’s easy to give up and stop dreaming. Often our default is to avoid pain. So rather than ingrate our […]
When I look back on my life I see that there have been distinct seasons—each one marked by growth and change. I am not the same person I was in 1985, 1995, 2005 or 2014. I feel like I’ve had several lives. I sometimes look back at photos of myself at different stages of life […]
