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  • How to Come Alive

    Posted on 10.28.12 | 22 Comments


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    Editor’s Notes: This is such a simple, elegant and inspiring article. Make sure to give this a read. You’ll be glad you did. :)

    By Kate Carpenter

    “Don’t ask what the world needs.
    Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
    Because what the world needs is
    people who have come alive.”
    ~ Howard Thurman

    No quote has ever had more of an impact on me than this one.

    When I first read it, I was working in the accounting department of a government contractor in Virginia. I was commuting back and forth to the 3-bedroom house on ½ acre that I’d just bought and I was doing it in a sporty little Mazda 626.

    I was making a respectable salary. I had parlayed my college degree into a “successful” career, and I was understandably proud of myself.

    But I was not alive.

    I was just one of hundreds of thousands of bean counters who sat in traffic a couple of hours a day to get to a cubicle in a maze of other cubicles to sit for another 8 to 10 hours a day trying to make numbers add up. (read more…)

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  • Embracing the Imperfect

    Posted on 10.21.12 | 7 Comments


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    Editor’s Note: I have only one word to summarize how I felt after editing this story from Kate: Wow. Don’t miss this powerful piece. And help me welcome Kate to the TSN family.

    By Kate Swoboda

    “The problem is not that there are problems.
    The problem is expecting otherwise and
    thinking that having problems is a problem.”
    ~Theodore Rubin

    Confession: Lately, for the past 6 weeks or so, I’ve been capital-U, “Unhappy.”

    Plain. Simple. Unhappy.

    Revolutionary insight? This does not need “fixing.”

    It’s interesting to notice all the impulses to resist the Unhappy in life, as if the human experience were destined to be one devoid of suffering.

    The messages are all around us that if we’re unhappy, we’re “doing it wrong.” So quick! Go buy something, do something different, take some kind of action, to make it all better.

    Nope–I’m hunkered down with it, now. Unhappy and I are hanging out, chilling like a villain, asking what’s the haps with the craps. (read more…)

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  • 10 Life Lessons from an Unlikely Source

    Posted on 09.23.12 | 12 Comments


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    By Kayla Albert

    “Don’t postpone joy until you have
    learned all of your lessons.
    Joy is your lesson.”
    ~Alan Cohen

    Twirling in her pink tutu, slightly tattered and always a little dirty, my 3 year old niece opens her arms wide, calling for all of us to get up and dance with her. She wants to hold hands while we jump, spin and leap around the room.

    She shouts along to the music, reminding each of us that we should be joining in. “Papa sing! It’s your turn Papa!” Panting and out of breath, we try our hardest to match her undying energy.

    After the music starts to fade, she drops our hands and holds out her arms again. “Ok everyone, it’s time for a group hug!”

    We haven’t purposely partaken in a group hug for years now, but we oblige because her smile is contagious and her enthusiasm is impossible to tame.

    Three years ago, she struggled her way into this world, red-eyed and out-of-breath. We thought she was in distress, but seeing her now, in full bloom, I believe she was just eager to get started, eager to dive in to what each of us were already taking for granted.
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