The Resolute Woman

Category: advice

  • If you need help, get it

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    We’ve suggested that you try talking to someone in your family or a friend when you’re struggling with a problem and don’t seem to be making progress. Talking to someone who cares about you and will listen can help. Often, that’s all the help you need. But, I want to add something to that suggestion.…

  • Can you create your own Walden Zone?

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    As we explained in a recent blog post, Williams Powers writes in his book Hamlet’s Tables about how Shakespeare’s Hamlet used his “tables” to make a list when he felt distracted. Of course, Hamlet’s tables were much different from the list that shows up on our computer screen or telephone. Hamlet wrote on pages made…

  • Some good advice from Horton Foote

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    If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, we hope you’ve gotten the message that we’re not trying to give advice or tell anyone what to do. We just want to give you some interesting information and maybe sometimes a few nudges in the right direction. We believe firmly that there are no simple…

  • Write your own advice

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    We just bought another book about clutter. It’s called Clutter Rehab—101 Tips and Tricks to Become an Organization Junkie and Love It!. Laura Wittmann, the author, makes a lot of good suggestions—101 of them, of course. Many of them seem like common sense or are tips we’ve heard before: Do not keep more than three…

  • A little advice from Oletta Jones

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    I mentioned in an earlier blog post how much I was enjoying reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. CeeCee Honeycutt is 12-years-old when her mother, who has been mentally ill for years, dies. Fortunately, CeeCee’s great-aunt Tootie Caldwell rescues her and takes her to a Southern mansion in Savannah—“a perfumed world of prosperity and…

  • If it’s good advice, take it

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    My husband can’t resist giving a little advice to Jay, my 21-year-old son, a college student who is working and living at home this summer. Why is so much easier to notice when he is giving advice to Jay than it is to notice when I’m giving advice to Jay?  Why is it always easier…

  • Why are you feeling more stressed?

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    Are you worried about your bank account? About your job and whether or not you’ll still be working next month? About how you’re going to finish the pile of work on your desk before you pick up your child at daycare? About your teenager? You’re not alone. Taylor Clark, writing in the February 20, 2011,…

  • Self-control in an age of excess?

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    We have to admit that we expected to find some new answers that would help us pass up dessert after dinner and avoid checking our e-mail messages when we should be working in this new book. We didn’t. We did find some suggestions, but we didn’t find any brand-new or easy answers. In his book…

  • New advice? Good advice? Bad advice?

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    We’re writing this blog because we want to help you Help Yourself! But we’re the first to admit that we don’t have any new advice. The Bible has some good old advice, such as “Do unto others….” We learned how to work hard from our parents’ good example. And, our mothers’ advice about eating fruits…