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Tag Archives: focus
A Free-Range Mind
You’ve heard of free-range chickens or cattle. Well, the thought came to me when I was trying to focus on something detail-oriented and important today, that I have a free-range mind. It wanders all over the dang place! Love, Russ
A Beautiful Choice
I just read a saying at https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/I-stop-for-suffering/263956387017672?sk=photos_stream that I liked and thought you might too: “It’s up to you to find beauty in the ugliest days.” When I read it, this popped into my head: A Beautiful Choice Ugly is … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Choices, Focus, Poetry I Wrote, Quotes I Love
Tagged beauty, choice, choices, focus, istopforsuffering, ugly
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The Most Selfish Thing I’ve Ever Done
The Thanksgiving holiday period is now over. For some dear people in my life, they weren’t wonderful times. For many, the holidays are cold, dark, and lonely. One friend mentioned the challenge of trying to forgive someone who’d hurt them … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Breakthroughs, Challenges, Dealing with Pain & Grief, Forgiveness, Growth/Learning, Loneliness, Patience & Persistence
Tagged acknowledge, acknowledging, ackowledged, Actions, dear, focus, forgave, forgive, forgiving, holiday, holidays, hurt, loneliness, lonely, Love, loved, pain, selfish, selfishly, Thanksgiving, Work, worked
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Essentially Me
“Focus on what has always been essentially you.” (Source: Andrea Kelly’s blog “A Handwritten Life”–I just spent a very pleasant hour there.) When I began to focus on what has always been essentially me, I found out some amazing things … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Following Your Passion, Quotes I Love
Tagged A Handwritten Life, alwasy, Andrea Kelly, blog, celebrate, erupt, erupts, essentially, focus, forth, hearts, holding, invite, me, minds, spirits, springs, volcano, world, you
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Perfect Moments
The longer I live the more I become convinced that I can either focus on how imperfect life is or on filling my life with perfect moments. Russ Towne
Keys to Our Marital Happiness
A friend commented something to the effect that it sounds like communication is a key part of what makes our marriage successful. I thought I’d share my response with all of you and augment it in this post: Yes, communication … Continue reading
Posted in Family "Fun", Gratitude, Growth/Learning, LIfe Lessons, Relationship Lessons Learned
Tagged beloved, bliss, blog, budget, communication, finances, focus, gender, genre, Happiness, happy, imperfections, investing, Love, lyricist, marriage, Money, music, read, respect, Special Ed, time, wedding, wedding rings, wife, writing
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Investing In My Relationships along the Way Or Paying For It BIG TIME Later
In my recent post, “Blowing the Dust Away” I used the phrase, “…investing time together” A reader commented in part, “I think investing in our valued relationships is a great way to put it.” (Thank you, Cathy!) That got me … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Friendship, Grandparenting & Grandkids, Growth/Learning, LIfe Lessons, Love, Observations, Parenting
Tagged attention, Caring, children, commitment, Family, focus, friends, great, Important, investing, Love, loving, Money, parenting, raising, Relationships, romantic
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The Strength To Let Go
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hess A friend shared the above quote on FB, and it triggered thoughts of times when I hung onto painful memories or situations … Continue reading
To Live In The Presence of Great Truths
“To live in the presence of great truths, to be dealing with eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals, that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises … Continue reading
Posted in Abundance, Gratitude, Growth/Learning, LIfe Lessons, Observations, Quotes I Love, Random Thoughts
Tagged appreciate, blessings, calm, eternal laws, focus, focused, Francis Peabod, fully appreciate, gifts, great, great truths, ideals, Life, live, living, Love, miracles, patient, power, presence, Remember, truth, unspoiled, world
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I Believe
‘Any time not invested with love is wasted.’ I don’t know who originally coined that phrase but the older I get the more I believe it to be true. Life is short and getting shorter, so I’m focused on making … Continue reading
Posted in Generosity, LIfe Lessons, Making the World a Better Place, Quotes I Love, Random Thoughts
Tagged action, adventure, enrich, focus, getting better, invest, invested, Life, Love, practice, quest, thought, time, word
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