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Your First Step: Be Grateful For Every Success, No Matter The Size
The great poem Desiderata has a beautiful line that is great advice for all of us: “Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep...

Karen Laidlaw
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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As A New Year Starts, Don't Forget To Close Out The Old
I am a fan of positive reflection, of taking a moment to look back over 2022.

Karen Laidlaw
Jan 3, 20231 min read
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Your Willingness to Never Stop Looking For Miracles Is Key
Are you finding miracles around you? Are you looking for what sparks surprise and delight?

Karen Laidlaw
Dec 27, 20221 min read
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Trust, Be Secure Knowing That The Thing Is On The Way
Why can’t we just relax in that knowledge and enjoy the now, the getting there?

Karen Laidlaw
Dec 20, 20221 min read
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The Importance of Believing Like a Child When Asking For What You Want
Now when we make the list, we almost immediately take out a big black marker and we start editing.

Karen Laidlaw
Dec 13, 20221 min read
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How To Feel Better By Celebrating The Successes On Your Journey
I used to live on a steady diet of chocolate bars. Thankfully, not anymore and that's huge for me and something to celebrate.

Karen Laidlaw
Dec 6, 20222 min read
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How I'm Starting to Practice Being More Brave - And Why That's Really Scary
My sister Debbie told me to do bigger things, so I’m screwing up my courage, and doing the thing that is scary.

Karen Laidlaw
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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Exhausted? Are You Finally Ready To Stop Trying to Control Everything?
When I surf the waves, it seems I’m able to be content despite the fact that few things work out exactly as I try to control them.

Karen Laidlaw
Nov 22, 20222 min read
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What If You Decided To Be the Easy One, The Lighthearted One?
Where could you be easier about things? Where could you replace your need to have your way with an easy, lighthearted approach?

Karen Laidlaw
Nov 15, 20222 min read
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Increase Your Happiness By Finding Ways To Surround Yourself With Love
I realized I enjoy being with each person that was there, and thought to myself, ‘why don’t I spend more time with these folks?’.

Karen Laidlaw
Nov 8, 20222 min read
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The One Thing You Need to Stop Doing in Order to Progress
Your thoughts do not always serve you. If you keep believing them wholeheartedly, you will impede your progress.

Karen Laidlaw
Nov 1, 20222 min read
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One Quick and Easy Way to Happiness: Don't Believe Everything You Think
Just for today, notice your thoughts. When you think something hurtful, stop and analyse it for merit.

Karen Laidlaw
Oct 25, 20222 min read
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It's a Good Time to Fill Your Life with More Ease and Effortlessness
The very image of floating through your life, with grace and an absence of pressure or anxiousness inspires me.

Karen Laidlaw
Oct 18, 20221 min read
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Grasping Vs Allowing: How to Make the Better Choice
Not one moment before its appointed time will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out of hands will make no difference at all.

Karen Laidlaw
Oct 11, 20222 min read
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A Fresh Way To Look At Your Life: Are You Superordinate Or Subordinate?
If I am superordinate, I am choosing, deciding what I want my life to be like.

Karen Laidlaw
Oct 4, 20222 min read
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Being Your Wonderful, Authentic Self Is the Best Way to Happiness
Lean on the wonderful, authentic you that knows exactly what to do next…and then take that step.

Karen Laidlaw
Sep 27, 20222 min read
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The One Person I Am Most Grateful To Have Had In My Life
Those early days after she passed I felt untethered, uncertain, and alone. I could not imagine how my life could ever be good again.

Karen Laidlaw
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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Want a Brand-New Perspective For Your Life? Check Out The Wisdom Of The Stoics
I am reading The Obstacle Is The Way. What a great way to reframe those annoying setbacks that happen to all of us every day.

Karen Laidlaw
Sep 10, 20222 min read
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Appreciating What It As The First Step To Having More
‘Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for’.

Karen Laidlaw
Sep 6, 20222 min read
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The Incredible Rightness and Lightness of Getting Back To Your True Self
It feels like everything is right in my world. I feel lighter and just light, easy, at peace.

Karen Laidlaw
Aug 30, 20222 min read
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