Ann Ranson
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Arts & Entertainment
Creative Journey
The creative process fascinates me, which explains why I was mesmerized by the 2021 Peter Jackson documentary about the Beatles…
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Health & Well-Being
How to Overcome the Feeling of Loneliness
According to numerous recent studies, Americans suffer from an epidemic of loneliness. The cost is high because people who experience…
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Health & Well-Being
Don’t Let Fear Hold You Back from a Happy Life
Fear is driving a lot of behavior in our society. I do not subscribe to the typical definition, though. I…
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Health & Well-Being
Self-Worth at 50+: Be Your Own Champion
Many employers hesitate to hire people over the age of 50. Society sends all-too-frequent stereotypical messages about seniors becoming a…
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Health & Well-Being
What We Focus On Expands
What we focus on expands. This is a spiritual law also expressed through such phrases as, “By right of consciousness,”…
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Health & Well-Being
What If Everything Is Happening FOR You, Not to You?
“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon…
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Health & Well-Being
Civility Is MY Responsibility
It’s been more than 10 years since I penned The Civility Pledge. It came out of my despair over the…
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Health & Well-Being
How to Deal with Anxiety of the Unknown
I’ve never liked the unknown. Some might say I’m controlling, but I’m just more comfortable with setting a strategy and…
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Health & Well-Being
Re-Think, Re-Frame, Re-Energize
Challenge your opinions for a new outlook. PBS recently aired the documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly…
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Health & Well-Being
How to Get Unstuck Mentally
To live bigger, we need to get unstuck. And it must be our mission to be the biggest us we…
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Health & Well-Being
Decision Paralysis: Too Many Choices
Over the past months, a few people I know have shared their feeling of being stuck. We talked about the…
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Health & Well-Being
How Can We Live a Good Life? By Making Each Day Count
In a recent interview on Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan, surgeon Atul Gawande shared his thoughts on the importance…
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Health & Well-Being
What Do You Want Your Legacy to Look Like?
We are creating our legacy with every choice and action we take, regardless of whether we’re thinking about it. Thus,…
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Life & Lifestyle
What’s Next?
Have you ever wondered what’s next in your life? Whether it’s about your career, lifestyle, or health, pondering this question…
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