by Patti Miinch | Jan 17, 2020 | blueprint, family and friends and coworkers, life redesign, Patti Miinch, skepticism, support
I received an email two days ago from a gentleman I’ll call Fred. With his permission, I’ll share a bit of his story.Fred’s marriage ended almost a year ago, and he was spending most evenings and every weekend eating meals and dozing in front of the TV. His daughter...
by Patti Miinch | Jan 1, 2020 | blueprint, brainstorm, change, Creating a Life Redesign Blueprint, dream, goals, ideal life, life redesign, New Year, Patti Miinch, plans
Is your life what you envisioned 20, 10, or just 5 years ago? If not, you aren’t alone. Studies indicate that many, if not most, people are living a life unlike what they had planned. Sadly, many of those people are frustrated and unhappy. You may be one of...
by Patti Miinch | Aug 6, 2019 | calm, limbo, Patti Miinch, peace, Resting . . . in Limbo, strategy, uncertainty, worry
I wish I had a dollar — hey, I’d settle for a dime — for every minute in just the past 10 years I’ve spent in what the people at Merriam-Webster refer to as “an uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state...
by Patti Miinch | Jul 25, 2019 | birthday, celebration, I Had No Idea, like, Patti Miinch
“Mail call!” I sang out as I came in the house. I had sorted the envelopes while walking down our driveway, culling the junk mail and dropping it in the trash bin outside and stashing mundane-looking items in my purse. Now I was holding aloft 4 or 5...
by Patti Miinch | Jul 23, 2019 | Beautiful Warrior, bitterness, Book Review, identity, insecurity, loneliness, self-assessment, self-identity
In a nutshell, Beautiful Warrior — Finding Victory Over the Lies Formed Against You by Tina Yeager is a phenomenal book!I was at first put off by the subtitle (Finding Victory Over the Lies Formed Against You). I don’t think of myself as a person about...
by Patti Miinch | Jun 28, 2019 | Five Minute Friday, grandmother, What in the World, world
I’m very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited (so excuse all errors) flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5...
by Patti Miinch | Jun 21, 2019 | Carl Sagan, dumb question, Five Minute Friday, question
I’m very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited (so excuse all errors) flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5...
by Patti Miinch | Jun 18, 2019 | die, life redesign, multivitamin, Patti Miinch, pill, What Doesn't Kill Me
Well, here goes. I hope I survive! That’s the thought that has flashed through my brain more than a few mornings since that fateful day back in December.That day, like every day for nearly 10 years, I opened the small plastic bottles and took out a...
by Patti Miinch | Jun 14, 2019 | bullet journal, exclamation mark, Five Minute Friday, goals, Patti Miinch
I’m very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited (so excuse all errors) flash mob free-write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5...
by Patti Miinch | Jun 11, 2019 | authentic life, authenticity, fraud, redesigned life, True Confessions
I’m a fraud.I have been much of my life.There. I’ve confessed it.I didn’t become a fraud on purpose. Truth be told, the role of fraud, of what Webster defines as “one that is not what it seems or is represented to be”, snuck up on...
