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It was one of those beautiful winter days. You know, the ones where the temperature is finally high enough that your nose doesn’t freeze the moment it ventures beyond the cozy warmth of your home and all around fat snowflakes are silently drifting down, covering everything around you in a blanket of white. It was a day like this when I found the most perfect snowflake I have ever seen. As I strolled through the snow, enjoying the falling snow, I saw it drift down and land on my sleeve. It was the most beautiful of all the snowflakes...
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One of the hardest things a person can do is to give up the idea of being perfect and accept that we are all perfectly imperfect. Perfection is after all an unachievable goal that is often defined by anothers ideal of perfection. While we focus on what another thinks or believes, we avoid taking stock of who we are and who we wish to become. Yes, we are imperfect by the standards of some. But it is our own standard of the person we want to be that we must live up to. So how do you achieve in...
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Life is perfectly imperfect is it not? Quite frankly I think it would be rather boring if it were not. We humans thrive on challenge and adversity. We grow and sharpen as we are forged on the anvil of life. And how we grow is different for each of us. Inspiration for writing comes from the strangest places. A recent conversation with a co-worker lead to a discussion of how people cope with challenge life presents them. Someone we knew had just given birth to twins. From there, the conversation went to how people handle challenges like caring for...
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We are all perfectly imperfect. Have you ever met someone who in your opinion was perfect? If you have, well bet you dollars to donuts, if you told them this, they would have a laundry list of imperfections to reveal. Imperfection is what makes each person unique in this perfectly imperfect world. Some imperfections can be changed, while others can not be changed. It is how you perceive yourself in light of those imperfections and how you chose to meet the challenges they present that either enhances or detracts from the quality of the life you lead. Did you...
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