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July and August have been quite eventful for me. I started the month off on a high getting a screen test in LA to star in an upcoming pilot and ended it planning a funeral. In between I've given presentations for the Indian Health Service, Verizon Wireless, Federal Employed Women, Montgomery College, and the Graduate School.
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| Lessons Learned from Luvenia Scott |
We can learn as much from death as we can from life. In this issue, I'll share a few more lessons about life that I've learned. My sister and I had to make the decision to put my stepmother into Hospice. The Hospice experience was wonderful. They treated us all with such care. I believe that If people were treated in the hospital with the same care that they get in Hospice, fewer people would be dying. Luvenia Beatrice Scott died on July 27th and we buried her on August 3rd. She lived for 85 years. Five lessons I learned from her life were: 1) Call the people you love daily and tell them so. 2)Take care of your health now. What you do in your youth can shorten your life in the future. 3) Live life fully. She was not afraid to try new things even in her 80's. 4) Don't complain about people instead pray for them. 5) People can change; allow them to.
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Don't Put It Off
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My mouth dropped open. I was speechless. I couldn't believe the words I was hearing over the phone. I was thinking about rescheduling my lunch appointment for the second time, but now I was the one being canceled. I'd rescheduled our lunch from the previous week to the current week thinking it would be better, but it wasn't. After all, it was only one week. The decision was perplexing me so I decided to just call my friend, explain the situation, and we would make the decision together. But, now it is too late. The woman on the phone was telling me that my lunch companion had died suddenly the day after our canceled lunch. I would never see my friend again and that opportunity would now be loss forever. The lessons I learned were...
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Lessons from Vaughn
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Today in my 'Time Management is Self Management' Class I shared an exercise I'd learned from my friend Vaughn. It made me think about our last encounter. Vaughn challenged us to acknowledge those people in our lives that matter everyday, to spend a couple of minutes looking into their eyes and letting them know how much they mean to us. He even encouraged us to acknowledge our own selves while we were looking into another person's eyes. "Eyes are the windows to the soul," Right? Click for more lessons from Vaughn.
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