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Good News, Missing Loved Ones, & Snow
Emotional level: 8 Mental level: 8 TODAY I LEARNED: 350 slices of pizza are sold every second in America. I’m ecstatic today, but I don’t want to say why. I feel like a kid waking up on Christmas morning. The anticipation of opening presents just brimming and rising in my smile. Something very wonderful…
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Uncertainty
Emotional level: 6 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: The slinky was created by accident. You know what’s frustrating as hell? When things are going completely right, and then suddenly, they’re all to crap. I’m not fond of uncertainty when it comes to life plans, but then again, who is? Lately I’ve been working to…
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We All Make Mistakes
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: An apple can last up to 10 months. Welp…I missed a couple days, but that’s okay. We can always start over. That’s one of the beauties of being human. I feel as though it was for the best, though. Consistency is key but sometimes you…
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Stuck
Emotional level: 4 Mental level: 8 TODAY I LEARNED: McDonald’s once made bubblegum flavored broccoli. As I sat in traffic moments ago, I looked to my left, lost in thought. I saw a beautiful stone lion, frozen in time. It’s very being is entirely solid and will most likely exist in its place long…
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Terrible Two
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt both snuck out of a White House even, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore. It’s day two of this new self-care journey and damn…I can say this is harder than people even realize. Keeping to a diet…
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A New Start
Emotional level: 5 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Oscar the Grouch used to be orange. It’s amazing, the things that frighten us. Our fears can turn us into something we never thought we would become. They prance around the edges of our thoughts until they see an opportunity to dive in. But why do…
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The Do’s and Don’t of A Bad Day
Emotional level: 6 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Horseshoe crabs have eyes on multiple parts of their body. Today was a good day. In fact, it was a wonderful day! But yesterday, life definitely could have been better. Things didn’t exactly go as planned, but everything worked out in the end. It also…
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A Fresh Start
Emotional level: 7 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: A woman tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind. Today is a fresh start. I’m starting on a new leaf and I’m…
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Simple 5 Step Elemental Meditation
Emotional level: 6 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds like: the dial-up tone, VCR tapes rewinding, Windows 95 startup, and many more. Here is a link to the site: http://savethesounds.info/ Have you ever had one of those days where absolutely…
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3 Simple Self Care Tips
Emotional level: 5 Mental level: 7 TODAY I LEARNED: Don Gorske (a world record holder), has eaten over 30,000 Big Macs from McDonald’s…that’s a lot of Big Macs. I don’t think I can stress enough just how important it is that you take care of yourself first. I’m sure that sounds selfish in retrospect,…