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Through the Desert Week 2: What’s In Our Desert

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Have you ever moved? Who am I kidding, of course you have. My family's moved several times, and it always works the same way. We get the keys to the new place, move everything in, and assess which boxes need to be unpacked right away vs what can wait until later. (And yes, if we're honest, a year or two can pass until the last few boxes are unpacked.) A few days of putting the immediate needs away, and we're in the car, driving around the neighborhood to see where the nearest pizza place, ... VIEW POST

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The Real Business Opportunity

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If you've been in this business for more than, say... 15 minutes, you've probably heard about the Thirty-One sisterhood. It's a wonderful bond we share with our local and national 31 consultants–a common thread that binds our stories together and weaves them into a beautiful tapestry. The 31 sisterhood is a wonderful relationship, but have you ever considered the relationship between customer and consultant? Ecclesiastes tells us about the ideal relationship between people. For us, this means ... VIEW POST

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Perfectly Imperfect Families

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  This is a story about my (im)perfect family. About sacrifice. About love. Everyone hears about the perfect family. A loving mother and father, two-to-four kids. But "perfect families" are the rarity these days, and what you have in reality is one big hot mess of humanity, stepping on everyone's toes, breaking rules, and now and then wishing they had any family but their own. See this lady? She's the start of my imperfect family. Not the cause of imperfection. But the start of ... VIEW POST