Just like that, I changed my mind. The impact was huge. For a few years, Ava and I had planned to sell our house and downsize. The goal was to have our house ready to sell by the end of 2020. The amount of work and money necessary to reach this goal was massive. The […]
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Our neighbor’s porch is probably 30 feet long. I’m not real skilled when it comes to judging distance, but there’s enough room on her porch to play Corn hole and you need 25 feet for that. Corn hole isn’t the point here. It’s what my neighbor does on her porch every morning. She’s a retired
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I’m grateful every time I walk through our basement. Every. Single. Time. The basement has a family room, two bedrooms, and a fairly large back area that’s great for storage. There was a time when the family room was nice and the basement felt spacious. But, that was a long time ago. A family of
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It didn’t sound like a crash, but it didn’t sound normal either. I was painting in our living room when it happened. At first I thought it might have been a truck carrying a large container that hit a bump in the road causing the load to bounce up and down and make a loud
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It was windy and raining. That’s never a good combination when you’re setting up a tent. Sure enough, it ripped and I never went camping again. That’s why this answer to a question about fitness caught my attention. “Would you be willing to spend a month alone in the woods with no electricity to instantly
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Skin cancer changed my life. I used to have a very loose respect for what the sun could do to my skin. Not only did I NOT fear getting sunburned, I always saw it has a quick way to a tan once the burn layer peeled off. That was then. The measures I now take
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Kathy’s message was the turning point. It happened five months after I started this blog. Before my first post in September 2018 I was filled with great excitement and high expectations. But, I also understood the excitement would fade and my early expectations would not be met. I was right. It’s funny how quickly that
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Every morning Jessica Slaughter walks back and forth in her one bedroom apartment. She doesn’t stop until she has 3,000 steps on her Fitbit. Jessica is 87 years old! More than a decade ago, a doctor told Jessica she was on the verge of becoming a diabetic. She had struggled with her weight her whole
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Mowing grass is instantly gratifying. It only takes a second for the obnoxiously too tall grass in front of my mower to reappear out of the back evenly cut and perfectly short. That’s INSTANT GRATIFICATION! What if it worked a bit differently? What if in the spring when I finally got around to cutting my
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The odds of reaching your goal just went up significantly. Research shows if you started pursuing a goal on January 1st your chance of reaching the finish line was just 8%. If you are still going today your chance of finishing successfully just shot up to 40%. What can you do to make certain you’re
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