The Resolute Woman

Category: goals

  • Not as big as a Dreadnoughtus

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    I’m feeling dreadful. I hadn’t lost the extra pounds I gained during my vacation when company arrived at our house. After five days of entertaining, I have a few more pounds to lose. That’s why I was happy to find an article in The Dallas Morning News about an 86-feet-long, 130,000-pound Dreadnoughtus. One of the…

  • Spend some time outdoors

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    Girls who spend more time outdoors are better problem solvers, and they are more ready to seek challenges. Plus, they’re more interested in environmental stewardship. Those are the conclusions from a 2012 national study by the Girl Scout Research Institute. And, we conclude that what’s good for girls must be good for women, too. We’re…

  • Failure is impossible

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    On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted. By voting, Anthony had broken the law because women didn’t get the right to vote until after she died. She was tried in court on June 17, 1873. “Her attorney called her as a witness, but the judge declared that Susan B. Anthony was incompetent as a…

  • Girls can do everything

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    It was 1872, and Blanche was 12 years old when she announced: “I am going to be a steamboat captain someday.” Mr. Blackstone, captain of the J.P. Whittaker, raised his big eyebrows. And then he laughed. “Girls don’t grow up to be steamboatmen,” he said. Judith Heide Gilliland tells the true story of Blanche Leathers…

  • Move on

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    Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, didn’t grow up dreaming about becoming an astronaut. She wanted to be a professional tennis player, reports Lynn Sherr in the June 17, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Sherr is the author of a new book Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space. “When she…

  • Make some goals

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    A long-term study of 6,100 Americans concluded that having a “sense of purpose” may be the strongest predictor of longevity. “Finding a direction for life and setting overarching goals for what you want to achieve can help you actually live longer,” said Patrick Hill, a psychology professor at Carleton University. We read about the study…

  • Amy Tan’s ramble

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    Amy Tan admits that she is embarrassed when people learn that it took her eight years to write her latest novel The Valley of Amazement. Sometimes she takes a rambling path, she told the audience at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas earlier this year. She is “lured away by many distractions.” While she was…

  • The ledger of daily work

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    How do we define success? Am I successful if perform an act of courage? If I climb to the top of my profession? If I have collected things that money can buy? Beryl Markham, in her autobiography West with the Night, has another definition. I like it even though I’ve edited her words, written decades…

  • Sing your song

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    It was big news. In Canterbury, England, in the Canterbury Cathedral, where boys’ choirs have sung for more than 1,000 years, a choir of 16 girls was singing for the first time, The Dallas Morning News reported in its January 24, 2014, issue. A female choir “Is a natural development” that adds “diversity and richness”…

  • How to get ahead

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    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started,” Mark Twain once said. I discovered that quote recently at a Weight Watcher’s meeting. And, when I looked it up online, I found another great quote from Twain. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.” –Joy