We all get caught in the trap of living our lives based on other people’s expectations. But life is not about expectations. And it’s certainly not about other people’s expectations. It’s about your experiences and what you do each and every day, and only you can decide what type of experiences are meaningful to you.
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Category Archives: LWYL
Your Life Doesn’t Have to Fit Neatly Between the Lines. Color It Any Way You Want!
April 4, 2009 – 6:58 am
A bit of sweetness
December 15, 2008 – 1:14 pm
Are you craving something sweet right now? Of course, it’s that time of the year when we all need to replenish our stores of comfort and joy as winter really settles in. And that’s especially true this year, for reasons that we’re all too familiar with. So to do our part in lifting spirits, we’re [...]
Pay it forward
October 21, 2008 – 1:34 pm
As overwhelming as the economic news is these days, we’ve learned to never underestimate the effects of a simple story. Sometimes, small trumps big. When we first wrote A Trip to the Beach, for example, we never expected to receive letters of thanks. We had hoped to entertain readers with the story of our move [...]
How can we help?
June 13, 2008 – 1:30 am
We’d like to do everything we possibly can to help you Live What You Love. We know that change is not easy and we have lots of ideas about how to help, but we want to make sure we give you what you want – and what you need most. Please tell us which of [...]
Can You Afford The Life You Want?
May 27, 2008 – 8:41 am
We’re often deeply moved by the e-mails we get from our readers. Just recently a woman named Julie wrote, “I am so unhappy in my job, and pretty much always have been, but I can’t afford to do the things I want to do. In order to be responsible and pay my bills, I have [...]
A Quirky Collection of Our Favorite Products
April 27, 2008 – 10:05 am
Over our 30 years of marriage, we’ve always worked together to pursue our dream of a passionate life. We’ve started nine businesses, and in all of them, we’ve either sold the food we made or the products we love.
It all began a few months after we graduated from college. That’s when we left the conventional [...]
Live What You Love
March 10, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Dear Friends,
We first decided to live what we love over thirty years ago. We were frustrated and discouraged with our jobs and the amount of red tape required to work for state operated social service agencies. We also hated going our separate ways each morning. After careful consideration, we decided that the solution to both [...]