The Resolute Woman

Category: balance

  • Advice from the Buddhists

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    I’m trying to achieve more balance in my life and striving for a better perspective. That’s why I like this advice from the Buddhists: “Act as the future of the universe depends on what you do while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make a difference.” I found that quote in an article…

  • Dance first

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    I found this quote on a card by The Borealis Press. “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”—Samuel Beckett. I like the quote, but a word of caution. Dance first, but remember to think, too. Like most things in life, the secret is finding the right balance between thinking and dancing. –Joy

  • The perfect myth

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    “There is no universal agreement on perfection,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. “There are people who think the Sistine Chapel is gaudy and Hemingway is a hack.” Perfection, Gilbert explains, is aspiring to something that literally does not exist. Elizabeth Gilbert was featured in the October 2015 issue of Southwest magazine.

  • A walk in the park?

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    “If you wake up in the morning and you have a choice between doing laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk,” says Christine Lee. “You’d hate to die and realize you have spent your last day doing laundry.” Christine Lee is one of the women whose photograph is featured in…

  • A performance or a march?

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    Elsie “was so beautiful….Chinese. Ageless. Paris thrown in. Perfect French. Poise….” For Elsie, “life was a performance. “For Betty, it was a tremendous march. A brave and glorious and, well, comical, sometimes endurance. All governed by love.” A performance or a march? Which best describes your life? Elsie and Betty are two of the characters…

  • His sweet, sunny, loving nature

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    I just read a book about James Garfield, who spent his childhood in poverty on an Ohio farm and then eventually was elected president of the United States. He served for 200 days in 1881 before he died from infection after he was shot by an assassin. I never would have read the book—Destiny of…

  • What’s normal?

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    Sometimes, we need to stop for a few minutes and consider what we’re doing—what has become normal in our lives. That was one of the lessons I learned at the National Girl Scout convention last month in Salt Lake City. The leaders at a workshop about leadership quoted Ellen DeGeneres, the comedian. “Normal is getting…

  • Goodbye October

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    What a wonderful month I had. I visited my brother James and his wife Jeany in Los Lunas, New Mexico. I helped Jeany make salsa with tomatoes, green peppers and onions from her garden one sunny afternoon. And, I woke up at 4:30 one morning to join 40,000 other people at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.…

  • Lean in or lean out?

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    Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University, explained why she hates Sheryl Sandberg, the author of Lean In, in an essay published in the March 16, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “I leaned in some more,” she wrote. “I ate protein bars and made important calls during my commute. I stopped reading…

  • Are you a workaholic?

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    Wayne Oates, a psychologist who invented the word workaholic, wrote 57 books. Oates once said that his own addiction was “a disorder akin to substance abuse,” writes Jordan Weissmann in an article “The Work Addiction” in the September 2013 issue of The Atlantic. According to Weissman, workaholics work compulsively and with little enjoyment. They also…