Ariana Friedlander
What if you smiled at everyone?
Six years ago I set a goal to smile at everyone I encountered for 6 months. It was partly a social experiment, and partly an intention to...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jan 6
- 5 min
The Sitcom Effect
Life is not like a sitcom, and yet it's so easy to get sucked into those worlds. The other week I was watching a Halloween episode of...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jan 4
- 3 min
New Year, New...
I remember the first time I was cognizant of the New Year. It was 1989 and my parents let me stay up to watch the ball drop. In my mind,...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
"Every tree comes with its own adventure,"
Picking out a Christmas tree has been a source of stress in my life. It's silly but true. Every year we get a fresh cut tree, doing our...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Nov 9, 2021
- 5 min
Is hypocrisy the elephant in the room?
I have a friend who’s been dealing with a disagreement with a neighbor. His neighbor sports a bumper sticker encouraging, “In a world...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
"I can't say that"
After listening to a client divulge concerns that he'd been carrying around for a while, I asked. "What if you said that to your boss?"...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Are you on track to meet your goals for 2021?
As I've reconnected with friends and colleagues lately, we typically take a few minutes to recall the last time we had seen each other....
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
"Let's go to the electrical boxes."
I was out for a walk with my family last month. We were at the local museum parking lot, which has many interesting treasures to explore....
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
Feeling anxious about what you're creating? Here's one thing that'll cure your ails
I recently served on a team tasked with guiding our co-housing community through the process of choosing paint colors for the outside of...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jun 3, 2021
- 5 min
It's time to turn your PLANS for 2021 into reality
Happy June everyone! In more normal times, June is a great month to revisit our plans. It's the halfway point in the year, so there's an...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jun 1, 2021
- 5 min
I used to believe I was stupid because I suffered from test anxiety
As a kid, anytime I sat down to take a test I would freeze up and struggle to recall information that I readily knew just hours before....
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Ariana Friedlander
- Apr 15, 2021
- 4 min
Turn your notetaking into REAL learning opportunities that create the change you want
Many of my clients only used their journals for taking notes during talks, while reading books, or participating in workshops before we...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Mar 25, 2021
- 6 min
Getting back to the basics
Journaling has become increasingly popular in the last 10 years thanks to Ryder Carrol for introducing the world to his techniques, which...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
A daylight savings letter to your future self
Daylight savings is one of my least favorite times of the year. I find it a hard adjustment to make. It's not just because we lose an...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
3 Powerful steps to shift from feeling stuck to WOWing yourself
Prefer to watch a video? Scroll to the bottom! I love getting questions about journaling. And one I've heard in various forms over the...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Feb 11, 2021
- 2 min
Have you discovered the power of YET?
I was recently having a conversation where the words "I don't know" were uttered with such frequency and ferocity that the person I was...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jan 19, 2021
- 2 min
Underneath
There's a section of the Poudre River where I frequently walk that freezes in the winter. Looking down on it, one might wonder if the...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
"Otherwise it might not get done"
There's ample evidence that the anxiety of anticipation is often worse than the event itself. Incessantly playing out our worries in...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jan 12, 2021
- 9 min
Pandemic Proof Planning
To say that 2020 did not go as any of us planned may seem like an understatement. I had some vacations I was very much looking forward to...
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Ariana Friedlander
- Jan 5, 2021
- 3 min
Resolutions, Goals, or Intentions, oh my!
Research shows that somewhere between 80%-88% of people who make New Year's resolutions fail to fulfill them. In fact, most people give...
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