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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party. My mom shook me awake in the dark.

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My Year In Preview: 2017 Edition

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Below are the brief thoughts around my Monthly Themes from September 2016-August 2017. The lesson learned here is to make sure that everything runs well before launching – and not to launch while on the road. I traveled quite a bit during this month, so I made preparation for the talks and workshops I was doing for my Monthly Theme.

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How Happy Are You?

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I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the ceiling and painting the living room. That’s barely halfway satisfied, and I was on a holiday vacation for most of it. In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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In the process, he learned a lot about what the community needed and the role which digital ignorance played, and made it his business to understand the problems, know what resources were available and find solutions. Celebrated annually on September 25, it is the first-ever global holiday day dedicated to activating ideas, goals and dreams.

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