The Courage of Getting Back Up

Don’t forget that you have plenty of time to join me in the #30PostsHathSept Back to Blogging challenge! The challenge is designed for any writers or other personal bloggers who want to jumpstart their blogging habit. Click here for more details. How do you get back up after a fall? In an interview yesterday, researcher …

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Blogging with Authenticity

Blog series, blog hops, and blogging challenges have been good ways for me to get back into blogging after a dry spell. This month I want to invite other bloggers to join me in a #30PostsHathSept Blog Challenge designed for anyone who wants to give their blogging a kickstart for the fall. Click here for …

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Embrace Your Intensity for Growth and Meaning

Intensity is not always easy to live with or comfortable to watch, but it is also never boring. In the words of developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, “People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”

Happiness and Intensity

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” ~ Thomas Merton “If you want to be happy, be.” ~ Tolstoy Happiness and intensity are not the same thing. I enjoy browsing Gretchen Rubin’s blog The Happiness Project, especially if I’m feeling emotionally stuck or apathetic. Her lively …

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