A woman travels to a beautiful, romantic foreign land. She has left her home to go on a working vacation. She wanted to explore new parts of herself and her job, doing it in a different place than the one she was born and grew up in. She finds a house to stay in that she really loves, but it…
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Learning Gratitude – Part 4 – The Framework
As I sat drinking a half bottle of Martinelli’s sparkling cider (from the bottle), and feeling like a bit of a lush, (hahaha), I started doing the first draft on my ingratitude R&R work. It began with looking at the basic’s of feeling ungrateful and replacing ingratitude with gratitude, but then I looked in earnest and I started wondering what are…
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Learning Gratitude – Part 3 – Why Gratitude?
I have so many questions as I start to delve into studying the effects of gratitude. Here are a few: Why is gratitude needed? Does it really change things that much? If so, then why is it so hard to be grateful at times? Why does it work? If gratitude does such amazing things, then why don’t all of us…
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Learning Gratitude – Part 2 – Seeing Gratefully
“Celebrate what you want to see more of!” Tom Peters Have you ever played this game? You’re given a tray of objects to look at to test your powers of observation. Then given a few seconds to study and memorize it before it is removed from your view. After something is removed, the tray is re-presented to our view. Then we…
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Learning Gratitude – Part 1
Being open, honest, and vulnerable is a goal of mine. Vulnerability brings connection and connection brings love and love brings joy. Therefore, vulnerability is a goal of mine. So here it goes. I am going to enter into a state of hyper-vulnerability with you and share myself at the level of awareness of one of my weaknesses, and then…
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Announcing! We Now Have Meditations Available!
Here at 7E we find meditation to be a beneficial way to harness our power and find our truth. Meditation helps us get centered, focused, clean and clear. Mindfulness is a place where we stop, breathe and connect with ourselves and the Divine. No matter what else is going on around us, we can find peace, feel centered and stay…
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