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What do you have to do?

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Here is some more good “stuff” I discovered during my recovery while all I could do was read. Enjoy! “YOU don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own……
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When necessary, who reminds you who you are?

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

As they rolled me from recovery into my hospital room, I came more awake. The nurse adjusted the tubes and my pillows. She smiled and asked me how I was feeling. I opened my mouth to answer, and nothing came out. I tried again and again, and nothing came out. Each time the pain felt like more. The nurse responded to the terrified look on my face and gently explained that my vocal chords had been impacted during the surgery. They would need time to heal. But here’s the thing. The week prior to my unexpected surgery, I was sitting……
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Do You Take Time to Rest Your Greatness?

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

DJ Khaled is one of this decade’s biggest names in rap and pop. The son of Palestinian immigrants, he’s become a larger-than-life presence in the music world as a DJ, producer and record executive. He’s already released nine albums of his own, and his latest, Major Key, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and is nominated for a Grammy. Resting your greatness is one of the life lessons DJ Khaled talks about in his new book, The Keys. In a recent interview with David Greene on NPR’s Morning Edition, DJ Khaled explains in fresh words the need for pillows……
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Happy Birthday America!

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” — James G. Blaine…
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Mohammed Ali was the greatest and so are you.

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I was sitting down to write my weekly blog when this email popped up from a Rotary friend and globally requested speaker/trainer, Michael Caruso. I couldn’t help myself, I just had to share. I made one adjustment and included the entire quote from Marianne Williamson at the end. Michael can be reached at Michael Caruso michael@michaelangelocaruso.com. Was he “the greatest?” People are saying nice things about Muhammad Ali. The boxer died last week at age 74 and almost every epitaph has referred to him as “the greatest.” It’s instructional to note that Ali had referred to himself as “the greatest”……
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Do you have any idea how I feel about you?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I care. I really do. Last week while in a meeting, the gentleman sitting next to me leaned over and whispered, “I really enjoyed your blog last week. I thought I was the only one.” He had no idea what that meant to me. He was a stranger. He didn’t know that I wonder if my words connect, encourage and let someone, anyone talk about sometimes uncomfortable things and to understand that no matter what, they are not alone. So take a look in this mirror and see how I see you and why I feel the way I do.……
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Can you cradle these transitions in 2016?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Last week I asked you, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” To answer that question you had to empower yourself to believe that impossible is merely a word to describe the degree of difficulty. This week I ask you to consider as you move from the no longer of 2015 and step into the not yet of 2016, how well you are prepared to face the typical transitions that come with the passage of time. Change can come in forcefully like a tidal wave, or creep along incrementally like a glacier. It might have the face of a devastating……
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What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

In a number of hours it will be 2016. It’s time for our New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in which a person makes a promise on New Year’s Eve to make certain changes or self-improvements in the year ahead. It is believed that the Babylonians were the first to make New Year’s resolutions around 4,000 years ago, and people all over the world have been breaking them ever since! The ancient Babylonians made promises to their gods at the start of each year, which began……
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Sometimes cliches are necessary.

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

“Let’s see what happens”, she replied. How many times had she heard and said those words? But this time was different. She was different. She had been divorced ten years. She had been alone ten years. It had taken her that long to learn to love herself again; to see herself as worthy. Now she was ready to dip her toe, perhaps her whole foot into the water. She was tired of being “singular”. Initially she had tried online dating. Perhaps because then she still saw herself as damaged, she attracted unsatisfying companions with her words. Oh, but now she……
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Are you shopping for a new friend?

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

What’s the occasion? Friends come in all sizes, shapes, colors and capabilities. They are not time stamped so you don’t know how long they will be good. Still, you can try them on before you commit. They satisfy needs. Some are high maintenance yet really bring joy into your life. Others seem to require no work at all. If you don’t connect for long periods of time, when you do it feels like the time apart was merely a comma in the middle of a sentence. However when old friends and new seasons don’t fit any more, emotional honesty and……
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