Murphy Writes Blog

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Career Happiness

Thoughts on losing a job

“Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.” ~ Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal I want to talk about job loss. These...

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Book Publishing / News

“Momisms” book finally published

“You’re running away? Let me help you pack.” ~ Mom My first book, “Mother Knows Best – Wit and Wisdom From Idaho Moms,” is now being printed and will be in my sweaty little...

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Career Happiness / Inspire

Following the Yellow Brick Road into 2011

ā€œThe road to success is always under construction.ā€ ~ Lily Tomlin Iā€™ve always felt there is a ā€œpathā€ that I am destined to follow in my life and if I just found that path...

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Career Happiness / Inspire / Work

Reverb 10: Achieve

  Todayā€™s prompt is from Tara Sophia Mohr: Achieve. Whatā€™s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine youā€™ll feel when you get it? Free? Happy? Complete? Blissful? Write...

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Family / Inspire

Marshmallows and the meaning of life

The campfire crackles and spits sparks into the black night sky and I watch as the tiny orange dots float up, up, toward the silvery moon and stars, like little fireflies lilting and meandering...

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Family / Inspire

Reverb 10: The power of friendship & family

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” Ā ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge Iā€™m participating in a month-long blogging challenge calledĀ Reverb10 during which I am posting a response to a writing prompt fromĀ 31 different authors. The goal of the...

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Inspire

Reverb 10 : 5 minutes to remember a year

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.ā€ ~Ā James Matthew Barrie, creator of Peter Pan Iā€™m participating in a month-long blogging challenge calledĀ Reverb10 during which I am posting a response...

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Work / Writing Tips

Reverb 10: Turning ideas into actuality

“We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to life.” ~ Brian G. Jett “A new idea is like a child. It’s easier to conceive than to deliver.” ~ Ted...

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Inspire

26 expressions of gratefulness

One of my favorite movies is the 1946 holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie centers on George Bailey, a kind man who has always been there to help others, but has grown...

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Career Happiness / Essay / Inspire

The meaning of success

ā€œSuccess means having the courage, the determination, and the will be become the person you believe you were meant to be.ā€ George Sheehan Success…Ā Is it a place we arrive at, or is it made...

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Work / Writing Tips

“Write drunk, edit sober” ~ Ernest Hemingway

  “Write drunk, edit sober.” ~ Ernest Hemingway One of the biggest challenges facing a lot of writers including myself is to ā€œlet it all hang outā€ as we are writing. In fact, as...