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Re: Is A Life Partner Essential To Your Happiness?

Cobby — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:55:02 -0000

A life partner is definitely essential to my happiness. There is something very powerful for me about living with my heart outside of my body. I feel a palpable difference in my approach my world when my husband is in town and at home waiting for me to get back from the office as compared to when he is away from home and I know no one is waiting there for me. He is also a powerful counterbalance to my natural tendencies. I would be less myself without him in my life and I would therefore be less happy.

Re: What Will You Forgive Yourself For Today?

Cobby — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:33:14 -0000

Today, I will forgive myself for being selfish. I will forgive myself for wanting someone to care only about what's good for me. I will forgive myself for being jealous of the people around me who I feel have angels looking out fo rthem within our organization. I will forgive myself for being angry at the people who seem to be watching out for everyone but me.

Re: Does It All Happen For A Reason?

Cobby — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:52:06 -0000

Another very timely question for me. I'm struggling with this concept in my professional life. While I am thankful for having a job in this tough economy, I am an ambitious person and I currently feel like my management is worried about the happiness and success of everyone around me but me. As a result, I'm struggling with letting go. Struggling with whether these things are happening because of some deficiency in me. Struggling to see any rhyme or reason for what's happening in my professional life right now. I too beleive that there are repeating lessons in our lives and that there is something that can be learned from every experience, but I'm struggling to see the lesson and learn from it.

Re: Enlightenment: Through Restriction or Enjoyment?

Cobby — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:23:11 -0000

Enlightenment comes through the naturally alternating periods of restriction and enjoyment that most of us experience in our lifetimes.

Re: Positivity; How Do You Keep It Alive?

Cobby — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:27:58 -0000

This is a really good and timely question for me. I'm typically an incredibly positive person, but have been struggling with staying positive at work and in my volunteer activity for the last month or so. I am thinking that for me to keep my positive outlook alive, I need to give myself more space from my professional and volunteer careers and reground myself with my family. Maybe some travel with my husband, siblings and parents would be good to refresh and recharge me.

Staying positive is just a matter of me making an affirmative choice to be positive when I am operating in my optimal zone.

Re: How Will You Make Your Weekend Sensual?

Cobby — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:53:18 -0000

I am going to go on a retreat with a group I volunteer with and will make the weekend sensual by enjoying good food and good wine with my friends.

Re: What Is Your Favorite Meal of the Day, and How Will You Enjoy It Today?

Cobby — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:30:34 -0000

While brunch is my favorite, today I am going to enjoy an after dinner treat instead. I am going to have a chocolate and caramel mini-cake that I am going to eat slowly so I can savor every sweet bite.

Re: What Is Your Favorite Meal of the Day, and How Will You Enjoy It Today?

Cobby — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:32:20 -0000

Brunch is my favorite meal. I like the slower pace of brunches. I also enjoy the mix of traditional breakfast foods with more savory offerings that are usually part of brunch service.

Re: What Will Be Your Indulgence Today?

Cobby — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:20:20 -0000

What a great question for a Monday. It's the day of the week on which I find it the most difficult to indulge, especially on a Monday filled with jury duty, work, signing papers for refinancing the house and then volunteer stuff. I think I will indulge by turning off all of my computers and watching an hour of mindless television while eating some Oreos and skim milk.

Re: What’s The Secret That Doesn’t Need To Be A Secret Anymore?

Cobby — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:25:30 -0000

Success is not achieved by strengthening yourself in the areas in which you are weak. Success is achieved by playing to your strengths. Figure out what you are good at doing and then look for opportunities, professional and personal, in which those strengths are used to your greatest advantage. Finding a spot where those strengths are honored, revered and allowed to grow is the key.

Re: Karma Points: How Will You Gain Them Today?

Cobby — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:38:06 -0000

I will clear the path for as many people I work with as possible today. I will be sweet and kind to my husband this evening even though I might be tired when I get back home. I will love on my puppies.

Re: The Best Meal You Ever Ate Was…?

Cobby — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:41:04 -0000

Dinner with my husband at a restaurant called Mustard's in the Napa Valley. We drank a Mondavi Private Reserve Pinot Noir. I ate Chipotle rubbed duck served over two white corn tamales with sauteed jalapenos (they get sweet after being sauteed) over a bed of spanish rice and black beans and something lucious and chocolate for dessert. I was drunk enough to not care that I was making a total mess of eating the duck. It was just a perfect evening.

Re: How Will You Love Yourself Today?

jennyjam — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:32:45 -0000

sounds like a very satisfying day! how nice!

Re: How Will You Love Yourself Today?

Cobby — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:27:50 -0000

I am loving myself today by taking a vacation day after having worked every day for a few weeks straight. I'm going to watch the inauguration, go to a volunteer board meeting at the new children's hospital in our area, get my eyebrows waxed and maybe even go see a movie and do some shopping. It's all about the love of me today.

Re: What Activity Sets You Free?

Cobby — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:22:54 -0000

Public speaking, driving my car fast on a sunny day with my music playing loud and hot yoga.

Re: What Song Would Best Describe Who You Are Right Now?

Cobby — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:57:04 -0000

Brass in Pocket by the Pretenders:

'Cause I'm gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I've gotta have some of your attention give it to me

Re: What Item of Clothing Makes You Feel Your Sexiest?

Cobby — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:34:39 -0000

High heels that have a rounded toe and a stable heel. Oxfords and Mary Janes. Anything in red or purple. Pretty bras and panties.

Re: What’s The Most Beautiful Part Of Winter For You?

Cobby — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:25:46 -0000

The most beautiful part of winter for me are the stark contrasts of the season. I particularly love how it feels to go from the cold outside into the warmth of a fire-warmed home.

Re: If You Could Only Take One Book With You, Wherever You Went, What Would it Be?

Cobby — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:33:26 -0000

Wow, that's an incredibly hard question. Assuming I couldn't take a Kindle, I'd have some serious soul searching to pick just one. My gut says that I would choose either East of Eden or The Red Tent if I were absolutely forced to pick one book.

Re: What’s One New Word You Want to Bring Into Your Vocabulary This Year?

Cobby — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:36:59 -0000

You're word FOCUS is making me think that maybe my word should be COMPLETE. I tend to multi-thread myself at home, work and volunteering to keep myself out of trouble. I end up being all over the place too sometimes so I'm thinking that maybe I need to focus more on being complete myself and on completing the projects and things that come into my life this year.

Re: What’s One New Word You Want to Bring Into Your Vocabulary This Year?

Cobby — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:35:22 -0000

My word is BOLD. I will be bold and brave enough to speak my mind. I will be tactful, but I will stop editing myself to the point that I am no longer direct and clear in my intentions and my desires.

Re: How Will You Stretch Your Mind This Year?

Cobby — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:29:09 -0000

What a brilliant idea. I'm 35 right now. You just inspired me to challenge myself this year by making a forty-before-forty list to start on this year!

Re: What Does Your Little Voice Say?

Cobby — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:29:40 -0000

I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one who has multiple voices in her head. The most assertive and powerful voice in my head says "Kick it woman!" The insecure voice in my head says "You don't deserve anything good. You're not good enough." While the assertive voice is louder, the insecure voice talks much more frequently.

Re: What word describes your desire for 2009?

Cobby — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:49:46 -0000

Audacious - 1. extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless. 2. extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive. 3. recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen. 4. lively; unrestrained; uninhibited.

I have to admit that it just might be my absolute favorite word of all time!

A second word for the year might be manifest. I want to be audacious enough to allow my inner bad ass to manifest herself this year.

Re: What will you create in 2009?

Cobby — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:39:45 -0000

I want to create a baby in 2009.