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As I mentioned last month, I am on a year-long journey to improve my emotional intelligence. The first three months, my accountability partner and I are focusing on relationship management, working on a different strategy each month. These strategies come from the book “Emotional Intelligence 2.0,” by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. My first strategy…
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One thing I inherited from my grandmother is a love of slippers. Growing up, she would always yell at me to put something on my feet, as I preferred to be barefoot running around. Now that I’m older, my feet are always cold, so as much as I would love to be barefoot, I need…
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Thursday was the Bears v. Packers game, their 199th meeting, and the start to the 100th anniversary of the NFL. Having spent the majority of my life in the Chicago area, I am a Bears fan, and will always cheer for them. I will never cheer for the Packers, in much the same way I…
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I wrote about our latest adventure – a move up to northwestern Wisconsin. We are currently at the in-laws, and are so thankful they have opened their home to us as we make this transition as Illinois refugees. My FIL has long been a die-hard Democrat, and while I’ve noticed it in the past, this…
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Something you cannot help but do is compare…yourself to others, your kids to other kids, your success to other’s successes, etc.; the list just goes on. I am as guilty of this as anyone else. I have compared myself to my friends and co-workers, compared my marriage to others’, compared Little Man to other children.…
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What is liberty? I know, I could go the “Webster’s says that liberty is defined as…” but that is not where I want this to go. For me, and my family, liberty is being able to do what we want, how we want to do it, when we want. It is financial freedom (debt free…
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Hellooooo, Wisconsin!!! Saturday, Squatch, Little Man, and I braved a 5.5 hour drive up to the wild northwest of Wisconsin. Squatch had his car loaded down for bear, and I had Little Man with the few remaining things with me. I will admit – I was extremely nervous about driving so far and long with…
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Ahh, fall. You know it’s coming, or at least hope that it’s coming, when the mornings and nights get cooler, and you need to pull a jumper out of the closet to curl up in for a bit of extra warmth. This past week has been uncharacteristically cool, which I am absolutely loving. I prefer…
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Have you ever just stopped and wondered “What is this life all about?” It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. No one person has the answer, although there are a lot of people out there who believe they have it down, and this is the beauty in the question. Each individual gets…
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I came across an article on Zero Hedge the other day, on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisor’s decision to rename convicted felons. This board has decided that instead of these individual’s records showing their felon status, going forward they will be called “justice-involved persons” or “formerly incarcerated.” Now, formerly incarcerated, I get; it is the…
Thoughts From The Loo 