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Mary Beth

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Mary Beth's Life List

  2. 1. blog everyday
    8 entries . 6 cheers     		47 people
  3. 2. cultivate benevolent ambivelence
    1 entry . 12 cheers     		1 person
  4. 3. think clearly, feel passionately and act decisively
    45 cheers     		5 people
  5. 4. master the law of attraction
    3 entries . 8 cheers     		282 people
  6. 5. make more jokes and get more people laughing
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. Accept it-Change it-or forget it.
    12 cheers     		72 people
  8. 7. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
    10 entries . 2 cheers     		1,329 people
  9. 8. go around the world in 80 days
    11 cheers     		11 people
  10. 9. be organized
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		587 people
  11. 10. write a children's book
    3 entries . 21 cheers     		1,321 people
  12. 11. simplify
    21 cheers     		678 people
  13. 12. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
    8 cheers     		5,506 people
  14. 13. have better posture
    5 cheers     		7,691 people
  15. 14. Learn Spanish
    2 entries . 5 cheers     		15,453 people
  16. 15. Find Danish and Norweigian relatives
    7 cheers     		1 person
  17. 16. practice random acts of kindness
    9 cheers     		759 people
  18. 17. make more visual art
    1 entry . 6 cheers     		5 people
  19. 18. finish things in a creative and artistic manner
    5 entries . 6 cheers     		1 person
  20. 19. see the grand canyon
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		870 people
  21. 20. find the good and not the fault
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		4 people
  22. 21. Play more and "discuss" less with the kids
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		2 people
  23. 22. join a local theatre
    8 cheers     		2 people
  24. 23. Be on time
    1 cheer     		940 people
  25. 24. Be granted the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and to have the wisdom to know the difference...
    7 cheers     		476 people
  26. 25. get kids and husband involved in trip planning
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. learn to let go
    5 cheers     		562 people
  28. 27. wear skirts more often
    2 entries . 8 cheers     		284 people
  29. 28. receive a Fulbright grant
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  30. 29. stay lucky
    1 cheer     		2 people
  31. 30. set up FLYlady routines
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		314 people
  32. 31. Take a moment each day to notice that I love my life
    7 entries . 6 cheers     		60 people
  33. 32. lose 5 pounds
    1 cheer     		1,150 people
  34. 33. Pay it forward
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  35. 34. create my own unique family traditions
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  36. 35. raise happy, confident, self-determined daughters who are aware of their brilliance
    9 cheers     		5 people
  37. 36. get accepted in a writing residence
    2 cheers     		1 person
  38. 37. love myself more
    5 cheers     		618 people
  39. 38. never lose my sense of wonder
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		404 people
  40. 39. write 100 words of my novel every day for 3 months
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  41. 40. Do NaNoWriMo
    2 cheers     		606 people
  42. 41. become fluent in French
    		1,348 people
  43. 42. go to taize
    		7 people
  44. 43. run a 5k
    		2,163 people

How I did it
How to pile on the people
It took me
100 days
It made me

How I did it: I hate asking for help, but I must. I will. I am still trying to ask for help. Especially when I go away in a couple of weeks. I hate needing help. But we are not islands and given my crazy, hectic family. Well, we are in desperate need. Read how I did it…

Sep 29, 06:48AM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer


How to grow a Secret Garden
It took me
30 days
It made me
sweet

How I did it: http://mbcoudal.wordpress.com/I have 7 rules to live by...This is #4... Cultivate a Secret Garden I'd rather not say too much. After all, it is a secret. But you can plant your own secret garden -- a hobby, a small indulgence, a pleasure, a journal. Sometimes I feel my life is so public -- everyone knows everything. I give so much to so many. This is my one little private thing. Read how I did it…

Sep 10, 07:35AM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


Recent entries
blog everyday (read all 8 entries…)
i learned how to make blog titles short 4 weeks ago

http://runningaground.wordpress.com/

no, not that one… and instead of typing up notes on facebook, i’m just trying to link to my blogs. and I posted on Twitter, but still I have very little traffic… I have to figure out marketing.

this is the new shorter http://tinyurl.com/yard6ym
#charitytuesday. this group is good. my blog on Harlem Children’s Zoneversion.http://mybeautifulnewyork.wordpress.com/

Oct 06, 08:59AM PDT | 0 comments


pile on the people
MORE people please 1 month ago

I blogged about this and here’s some of what I said at http://mbcoudal.wordpress.com/

Pile on People (P.O.P.)

There is no problem that can’t be bettered by adding a lot more people to it.

If two parents are good, then three are even better still. Four or five? Excellent! After all, it does take a village to raise a child. Or fight a war. George Bush employed this concept—he called it a surge.

In my life, I have employed surge. Especially in the last few years I have piled on the people by employing housekeepers and babysitters. And it’s really worked well. (Heck, half of my facebook friends are the kids’ babysitters.)

I was just chatting with Josie, former babysitter, the other night. I was dissing marriage to her. Saying Let’s face it, married couple love is way overrated. That relationship is so fetishized by, oh, I don’t know, diamond companies, candymakers, Valentine’s revelers, Catholic priests. If we are going to celebrate love, let’s expand our concept of love a wee bit.

Let’s celebrate a love of a single mother for her kids, a sister for her brother, two dear old friends, a son for his dad, an aunt for her nephew, a student for his teacher, a pastor for her flock. I dunno. I’m just sick of all the brouhaha over marriage.

My point is – it’s wrong to send love like a garden hose in just one direction. That won’t water the garden. Hook it up to a sprinkler and let love be more like a fountain – spraying in many directions and watering a wider land.

I’m digressing and I do want to tweak my P.O.P. concept.

Make it P.O.U.P. —Pile on Useful People. Because just a pile of people gets unwieldy. And given that I’m a real people pleaser, when you have to please unwieldy people, it’s a real drag. So try to see that the people in your life add, not take away.

Sep 29, 06:45AM PDT | 0 comments


blog everyday (read all 8 entries…)
ummmm 1 month ago

I might have to change this to blog every other day or something. it’s a bit hard, plus nobody reads it. But here’s today’s blog. it’s all about my french class.
http://mybeautifulnewyork.wordpress.com/

Sep 28, 07:34AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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