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The Beauty in Goodbye’s and Hellos
Saying goodbye can be beautiful in that it can mean a good end, a fond farewell, and a wish of a happy future for someone even if you’re not a part of it. I still cry at goodbyes in my life and in the movies, but it’s a good kind of cry. Goodbyes can be hard though. When you don’t know what’s next, when you don’t expect it or when it has to be in the middle of something and it isn’t as positive of a break. There’s still learning and value often in those moments, but that doesn’t make them easier. Saying hello is often exciting for me as…
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Following a Char(actor)
See what I did there? 🙂 We all have our favorite characters on the big screen and small screen, and often if we enjoy it enough we look for the actor’s other work online Although it can sometimes be fun to follow your favorite actor or actress, I’ve learned that its often detrimental to like the actor(ress) more than the characters of theirs that you’ve actually enjoyed and have seen value in. I know there’s such a thing as being versatile as an actor, but I think this has its limits, you have to be a good judge of the material and people you’re dealing with. I’ve loved certain characters,…
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A Swingin’ Song Choice
Favorite Swing songs, and playlists, for the purists, and pop favorers alike. My primary swing mix, with my favorites as well as influence from others: For those who want to dance to pop music A great playlist a friend of mine made A list built for lindy hop
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This is the Day that the Lord has Made
let us rejoice and be Glad(er) in it. It’s the last night of youth group tonight for the school year. It’s been a wild ride. 12 leaders 3 retreats 1 youth house countless memories. Praise the Lord.
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when you get turned down for a role
Understand that it’s their loss for what you could’ve brought to the company and your gain since you can learn from the experience, and learn more before your next role. It certainly doesn’t always feel like a good thing but if you can take positives from the experience, that’ll help you keep going and avoid losing steam in your search. Keep learning, and bettering yourself.
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Is being the next “_____” helpful or harmful?
You often hear of stars get compared to another from the past, or, people will say someone is the next generation’s so and so. While this may be an honor at sometimes, is it actually helpful or harmful to the person and or society involved? First the positives. Notoriety, if its someone you meant to be or are proud to be, having your name associated with theirs could arguably be great marketing and encourage any and/or all their fans to find you. Unfortunately, it could be detrimental to be directly associated with another person and potentially judged against them. It could mean less creative freedom as well. I think it’s…
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(Don’t) Throw it in the Pile
You’ve probably heard the saying: “if everyone threw their problems into a pile, once you saw everyone else’s, you’d take your problems back instead”. One of my advisors recently turned that on its head. To put what he said in my own words: If everyone threw their good things in a pile next to everyone else, and realized how other people got to their good things we’d all take ours back. I love that this is what I see as an optimist’s version of the famous example. It challenges what we see, I mean people might have their own value in the process of how they got to where they…
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Send Me a Postcard
My parents recently left on a vacation that’s been a decade in the making. I kid you not. They just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary (congrats Mom and Dad!). They had a celebratory dinner on the actual day at the cafe (read: restaurant) where they had their wedding rehearsal dinner, and now they’re celebrating together on the trip of a lifetime to Hawaii. They’ve gone on trips before but neither one of them has been there yet, and it’s been on their bucket lists for, again, at least a decade, probably longer. Before they left my Mom and I talked in the car about what they should bring home for…
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Being Mindful
Sometimes in our lives we become convinced we have something right, sometimes we are right but other times we may not be. It comes down mostly to wisdom and having the courage it rely on facts over feelings and focus on the truth. Being mindful is about being a critical thinker, not just in school, not just when you’re working on a project for work, but also when you believe you’ve found the truth, keep looking for proof, it will keep you sharper in your convictions, that and you’ll be better at defending those convictions. Also, though, make sure to listen to others and ask questions, just be nice about…
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Teaching Whether you Like it Or Not
I’ve mentioned before that I didn’t want to teach at many points in my life, but now not only have I realized that I enjoy teaching, but more in non-traditional elements, like speaking opportunities, and one-on-one guidance. Now I need to add to this that everyone is a teacher whether they intend to be or whether they’re a good one or not. You see, there is always someone watching you, whether its the person behind you in line seeing if your polite the the cashier, and learning about how others engage, or its a sibling or cousin that sees you as a great example in their life, or sees you…
