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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

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Do you believe this of yourself? I find that I as I get older it’s getting easier to believe in myself. Maybe it’s because I am caring less and less about what other people think of me. Maybe it’s because life is pretty busy these days and I don’t even have time to think about what I think people are thinking of me. I’ve wasted far too much time worrying about other people’s opinions of me but now, I don’t care anymore. Well, I care far less than I used to.

A therapist once said to me that there are always going to be people in the world who are talking about me, but what they say is only their memory or their concept of me. It actually has little to do with who I am. This idea resulted in a shift in my thinking. It made me see that the chatter is all irrelevant. People talk. But I’m here living my life and one has very little to do with the other.

I love the story this woman tells in this video. I hear this woman speaking to me during those moments when I get too self-conscious and start worrying about how people perceive me. She’s telling me to let it go. Stop the worrying. Be myself. Be true to who I am and who I want to be because “other people’s perception of you, ain’t none of your business.” – Cris

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The Friday Exhale: 5 Thoughts on the Week

I often think about muffins because making them has become part of my weekly routine. I try to fit in making a batch two – three times a week. I first began making them at least 30 years ago, along with loaves and cakes. Now I don’t have time for the others, and I don’t need the calories, so muffins are my baking focus. They are a quick, reasonably healthy snack for my sons and my mother, they don’t take long to prepare, and they freeze very well: doing the bird thing. I usually have a variety in the freezer.

Lately, for some recipes, I’ve been chopping up a handful of dried cranberries and tossing them in at the end. Big hit with my sons and my mother, so it’s a keeper. Finally, as you can see from the photo, I increasingly sacrifice quantity for quality. I like to see and eat tall, rounded muffin tops.

If you want to know how I get my muffins to look like this, let me know and I will post about my strategies developed over the years. – Maria

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