Tag Archives: inspiration

How to Accomplish A Goal, Your Goal; Any Goal

Posted on October 16, 2013 by thewritertracy

I’ve been writing about weight loss this week.  I’ve interviewed 9 women and am telling each person’s ‘How I did it’ story in a feature for Kit magazine.  It’s been inspiring, has caused me to pause and think.  Not about … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Where You Go, It’s Who You Meet: 5 Lessons Learned while Traveling

Posted on October 9, 2013 by thewritertracy

We’ve just returned from a wonderful trip to South Africa.  It is, a beautiful country to say the least.  And while I could write about all we saw and did, and maybe I soon will, today I’m writing about some … Continue reading →

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Who’s In Charge of Your Life?

Posted on September 20, 2013 by thewritertracy

It’s been a rough week for me.  So I’m holding onto scripture today.  It’s what I do when life gets out of control.  When my plate is full, when my hands are tied, when my mind is running ahead of … Continue reading →

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How to Get to the Other Side, No Matter Where You’re Headed

Posted on September 11, 2013 by thewritertracy

photo by Chesse Hobbs I think it was the exclamation points.  There were two.  And they came at just the right time.  Because the more I dig into this project, the more I find myself face to face with the … Continue reading →

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How to Know if He’s the One, Even after Two Decades of Life Together

Posted on September 4, 2013 by thewritertracy

  I’d said it with pride, but when he pointed out the truth, my stomach suddenly lurched. “22 years, huh?  Why you’re only three years away from your silver wedding anniversary.”  Silver Wedding Anniversary?  What?!  That’s an anniversary for old … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned from a Ten-Year-Old Entrepreneur

Posted on August 28, 2013 by thewritertracy

I’ve been a mother for 19 years.  Three times I have given birth. Three times I have taught people how to go potty, tie shoes, and trim toenails.  Three times I’ve pushed a little girl behind her bike until she … Continue reading →

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The 3 Things that Led Me to Writing

Posted on August 21, 2013 by thewritertracy

I am participating in the ‘Writing Contest: You Are A Writer’ held by Positive Writer. My journey with writing began with a newborn baby, a bum refrigerator and an accounting error. I was thirty-one years old and I was tired.  … Continue reading →

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Tiny Seeds And Trust: How A Shift in Thinking Changes Everything

Posted on August 19, 2013 by thewritertracy

It happens over and over again.  I make a decision or goal or what have you and doubt creeps in.  I begin to obsess, look ahead, fill my brain with thoughts of negativity.  It drowns my hope. So this time … Continue reading →

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How to Get What You Want…or Not

Posted on August 6, 2013 by thewritertracy

As I walk around the house picking up shoes, I have to ask myself; where did I go wrong?  Because for 16 years I have asked, pleaded, begged even, for the minors in my home to pick up their shoes … Continue reading →

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To Those Who Push my Buttons, Here’s What I Have to Say

Posted on July 31, 2013 by thewritertracy

Photo by Leah Jones The Ugly Truth I’m sitting in my room at the Holiday Inn Express in Muncie, IN and all I can think about is this: the big, fat, ugly truth.  Which is; I’m mostly all talk and … Continue reading →

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