Encouragement for Your Life is a collection of insightful thoughts, inspirational stories and quotes that offer a great perspective for those in need of a new direction, a bit of hope and healing and a road map for lifetime success.
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I don’t about you – but I sometimes struggle to get moving on projects, book writing, speech writing, and radio show writing you name it and I’m usually dragging myself to get it done… What’s odd it’s not that I don’t want to do it but I find so many other “worthy” things to do instead of my work…like clean the house, vacuum my car, read my emails, do my laundry (I’m odd like that) but I still have to get to it – I still have a responsibility to my editor, my team and others to do my work…
Have you ever looked at a task and thought, Wow, that’s impossible! Then you stop, or you start to find other ways to get the job done and you realize that it’s not impossible, it’s just difficult, and then you keep working and the difficult isn’t as bad as you thought. Now, it’s still hard but, before you know it, the job that was out of range—too hard to do, couldn’t figure it out—is now completed. Finished. Done. Recently I was having some quiet time; I was reading in a devotional book I really love about prayer and came across
Your story isn’t over yet. In praise of the humble semicolon I know it seems odd to write a post about a punctuation mark, but recently I was at a restaurant and my waiter had a very pronounced semicolon tattooed on his arm and I asked about it. He told me that the semicolon is now the symbol to recognize those who have struggled with depression, anxiety, addiction and/or suicidal thoughts. I had not heard about this trend of using the semicolon as a symbol of hope. The waiter went on to explain that the semicolon represents “…a sentence the
Deb Sofield is a dynamic Keynote Speaker, Private Speech Coach and Author of five books. Her best-selling book Speak without Fear – Rock Star Presentation Skills to get People to Hear What You Say, and her latest book Perfecting Your Platform – Transforming Your Stage Presence into Stage Power, and her three-volume series Encouragement for Your Life – Tough Love Memos to Help You Fight Your Battles and Change the World.
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