Susan L. Farrell, Author

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Self-Empowerment

Lesson from Mary Poppins

Several years ago my husband and I took the grandchildren to see the play Mary Poppins.  A recurring line was, “Anything can happen if you let it.” This is very true.  How

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Self-Empowerment

Bits and Pieces

An old management adage is: “How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.” All this refers to is that you take something large and complex, such as a

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Self-Empowerment

Resolutions or Goals?

I’m not a resolutions person. It seems that too often I make a resolution at the beginning of the year to do something big, set it aside, and never look

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Self-Empowerment

Achieving Your Goals

There is so much that can be written about setting and achieving goals. What I would like to do today is to try to simplify goal achievement. Our goals really

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Self-Empowerment

Write Your Epitaph

An exercise to help in goal setting is to write your own obituary.  When you pass away at age 80, 90, 100, or whatever you desire, what do you want

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Self-Empowerment

Empowerment is external, self-empowerment is internal. Empowerment is when someone has power, permission, and/or authority to do something.  This often comes from outside the person.  For example, our supervisor might

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Resolutions vs. Goals

I’m not a resolutions person.  It seems that too often I make a resolution at the beginning of the year to do something big, set it aside, and never look

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Aim Higher

I recently attended my 40th high school reunion.  During a conversation with a friend since elementary school (not an old friend—neither of us are old!) I was reminded of something

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Take It Off the List

Do you have things on your to do list that have been there for weeks? Months? Longer?  If so, may I make a suggestion?  Either do them today or take

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Planning Backward

Although we usually think of planning as starting at the beginning and finishing at the end, it can be beneficial to start with the end and continue backward to the

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