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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden.
A 3-minute read

You know exactly what you want. You know why you want it. You’ve explored your options. You’ve nailed down a plan.

Now that What, Why, and How are sorted, it’s time to hit send.

You’re jazzed. So jazzed.

But wait!

A couple of tiny things…microscopic, really…. need to be handled first. These micro ends dangle like dreaded prepositions and participles at the end of an otherwise…

So Happy Together

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read – Challenge 70


Trying to keep up with my 94-year-old mom is crazy fun. Mama Eva moves like the Energizer bunny on her rollator, exercises her mind and her body daily an makes it a point to learn something new every day. Then she teaches her new insight or skill to someone else…usually me.

Mom excels at anticipating changing situations and adapting to new circumstances ahead…

Let it Go, Let it Go, Let it Gooooooooo…..

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read – Challenge 69
Oh My Goodness. If only it were that easy. Just when I think I’m becoming better at letting go, I find myself renting a storage unit to house the first couch my parents ever owned. The blue one. Because you never know when a family member might need a beloved 75 year
old couch.

Then there are my closets brimming with unworn clothes…

Just Keep Growing, Indeed

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read – Challenge 68

This week’s winter storm gave me a reason to settle in, to stay put. To hang out with hundreds of desperately hungry birds feeding off our deck. To put the kettle on. To indulge in book browsing. To travel into a story of my choosing.

And to ask myself yet again, what does it mean to Just Keep Growing? After you retire…

Be The Change

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi

I just love a brand-new year. A time to take stock. A chance to hit refresh.

I’m not much for making resolutions, but I do appreciate a chance to do a little better. To be a little better.

Each new year invites us to take stock. Personally. Professionally. Practically. This year, my stock taking, gave way to a…

And a Happy New Year

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As we make our way into the new year, I'd like to thank you all for taking this journey with Just Keep Growing. Thank you for growing through 2024 with us; I look forward to the next year!

Before you go, I encourage you to comment a piece of good advice you heard in 2024 along with well wishes for the new year.

Love, jeanne, 
www.justkeepgrowing.biz

Happy Holidays from Just Keep Growing

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Happy Holidays from Just Keep Growing!
We hope you enjoy a little break with your friends and family.
More Just Keep Growing to come next week!

Love, jeanne, www.justkeepgrowing.biz

Legal & Free

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A 3-minute read – Challenge 65
Copyright: Jeanne Gladden


My wise Dad acquired a classic 1947 June-Bug Green Plymouth about the time I got my driver’s license. We named her Minnie. Unlike my best friend’s brand-new Mustang, Minnie was not cool. She was not sleek. Minnie was a tank. No matter, she was mine. If not on paper, she belonged to me in my heart.

The Old Girl took a bit of…

Seasons Change and So Do We

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 2-minute read – Challenge 64

In Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert’s TED Talk, The Psychology of the Future Self, he said “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished. The person you are right now is transient, fleeting, and temporary. The one constant in our lives is change.”

We appreciate that fact of life. Of course, we do. And yet, we can easily slip…

Everyday Thanksgiving

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I love the day we set aside to gather, to share moments of grace and gratitude.

Whether in the shopping, preparing, putting an extra leaf in the table, traveling to and from, parade watching, cheering for football teams, napping, or sneaking a second piece of pie. I love this day. More than this day, I love the practice of gratitude.

I do not always remember to be grateful, forgetting more than not…

It’s Your Life, Lead It!

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read – Challenge 62

It’s Your Life, Lead It!

Have you ever experienced that helpless feeling of having no control over your day? Your week? Your life?

Stuff happens. Stuff we do not choose. Stuff we do not prefer. Stuff we cannot control. Why this? Why me? Why now? What am I meant to learn? To do differently?

And, so it has been a season of tests…

A Week Without Word

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 1-minute read – Challenge 60

I am reflecting on a delicious week of sun and nothingness….the gift of unstructured time and agenda-less days.

So very refreshing.

No words.

This Week’s Challenge:

How do you renew your spirit?

Love, jeanne, www.justkeepgrowing.biz

The Twins, They Just Keep Growing

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read – Challenge 59

“Who’s your mama?” We get this a lot, we children of “the twins.”

Eva, and her identical twin sister, Ina, turn 188 in a few weeks. Eva is my Mama and her twin sister, Ina, is my aunt. It is tricky telling one twin from the other. And, that’s just the way they like it. They love fooling people. Sometimes by accident. Sometimes…

What Do You Say?

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 2-minute read – Challenge 58

If you are sad for families and friendships being destroyed by political rhetoric meant to separate us…..me too.

If you wonder where the massive amounts of money flowing into these high- profile campaigns comes from…. me too.

If your trust in the political process has taken a nose dive….mine too.
If your heart hurts for how we citizens have been systematically divided by…

More or Less

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read

More or Less Week 57
According to David Allen, efficiency expert and best-selling author, in the last three days you have probably received more change producing, project creating, priority shifting input than your grand parents received in 3 months. Meditate on that.

We are living in a constant state of receiving, interpreting, evaluating, deciding, and reacting to all kinds of stuff entering our lives. This includes…

A Place to Call Home

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Week 56
Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 3-minute read 
Imagine. Watching your home, your safe space, being ripped from its foundation, disappearing in torrents of flood waters. Along with everything you own. Every single thing that made you feel at home in your home.

Imagine being disconnected from the rest of the world, not knowing if your family or friends are safe. For hours. Or days.

This happened. To thousands of people, our…

Problem or Opportunity?

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Problem or Opportunity? Week 55
Every new day brings a few problems. Some new ones. Some old ones.
Every change, small or large, brings problems. New material to work through.
The condition of just being alive presents us with problems of one sort or another.
Some we anticipate. Others catch us by surprise.

We may not get a say in the kinds of problems we face, but we do get a say…

Ahem

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Week 54
So, I have a chronic cough. It comes and it goes… for no apparent reason. This no- good, low-down cough has been coming and going for nearly 2 decades. The flare ups seem to be getting worse and lasting longer. Frittering away more of my life force and eroding my jolly good humor.

Medical tests reveal nothing that would cause such a vile symptom. And, still I cough. Most unpleasant…for…

Celebration Time

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Copyright: Jeanne Gladden
A 2-minute read

Celebration Time - challenge 53
It’s been a mere year since we launched Just Keep Growing, especially for those of you who are dedicated to leading a wonderful life, a life of continuous personal growth. Whether it’s a new and exciting experience or something familiar that you just want to appreciate and enjoy a bit more, it’s your life. You get to choose again and again.

Welcome to Just Keep Growing

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