The Resolute Woman

Category: things-to-do

  • Is it time for vacation yet?

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    As I explained in a recent blog post, I am trying to finish an assignment from a client, help my daughter move into a new apartment and get ready for vacation. Because I am feeling a little harried, I am trying a different approach every night when I write my to-do list for the next…

  • A little advice from Shakespeare and Hamlet

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    As William Powers reminds us in his book Hamlet’s Blackberry, London during the late 16th and early 17th centuries was a bustling, chaotic place. People were bombarded with pamphlets, advertising placards, commercial and public documents. Soon they would be reading the first newspapers. How could people cope with this busy world? They used an innovative…

  • Do you have any holes to fill?

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    Jane Pauley, the award-winning journalist, passes on some advice she received from a graduate student. Here is the student’s advice: “Somewhere in our childhood is a gaping hole. Fill this hole. This is the time to experience the world beyond.” In an article in a recent issue of the AARP Magazine, Pauley suggests that we’re…

  • Are you compassionate toward others?

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    In her book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Karen Armstrong remembers six kind words that were spoken to her when she was 20 and tells how she frequently has recalled them at particularly bleak moments in her life. Armstrong and a group of leaders from six faith traditions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism—have…

  • Add some happiness to your to-do list

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    I recently had a lot of excitement in my home office. The same day that my 21-year-old son Jay got an unexpected afternoon off from his summer job, my good friend Everett, age three,  came to visit. Everett, who usually travels with a baseball bat and ball, a football or a basketball, came equipped with…

  • Things that don’t give me a boost

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    As soon as I made my list of things-to-do when I need a boost, I decided that I needed to make another list of things-not-to-do when I need a boost. As I explained in my last blog post, when I’m feeling a little low, a good book or a walk with my dog can make…

  • What can I do when I need a boost?

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    I have been feeling  in a funk. I checked the dictionary to make sure that “funk” was how I was feeling, and the dictionary defines funk as “a low, depressed mood.”  I concluded that I haven’t been in a big funk. Just a little funk. But then I started reading a good book—a good summer…

  • Focus on what’s important

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    Fayteen is very busy now helping to take care of her daughter who is being treated for breast cancer and also trying to keep up with her real estate business. She is a wise woman, and she knows that it’s most important to focus on taking care of her daughter and keeping up with her…

  • Need more items on your to-do list?

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    I made three out-of-town trips recently. Then, just when I was beginning to feel recuperated, my son Jay arrived home from a camping trip at 11:15 p.m. one night, and I had to get up the next morning at 4:45 a.m. to drive my daughter from Dallas to Denton so that she could travel with…

  • Too many things to do? Make a list.

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    Fayteen is busier than usual keeping up with her business and helping her daughter Ranna get the treatment she needs for breast cancer. Plus, she just spent a few days in the hospital herself. Joy returned from a short trip and will be leaving again in a few days for the University of Tulsa to…