Cevado Blog- Real Life and Real Estate Updates

What I'm Grateful For: Late August 2018  This is one of those upside-down gratitudes - an exercise I try to undertake whenever I catch myself thinking how unhappy I am about something. This week, it's [...]

What I'm Grateful For: The Carrot AND the Stick  I was reading a little bit on "flow" the other day - you know, that recently popular buzz-word that means the state where you kind of [...]

What I'm Grateful For: What Goes Down, Goes Back Up So I'm no longer a "spring chicken" - which is a nice way of saying I'm kinda old. I don't FEEL old, not one bit. [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Horses (aka, "Hard Work") Right now I'm sitting in my car, on my laptop, hooked up to my hotspot, writing this while I watch my youngest warming up her new horse, [...]

What I'm Grateful For: The Grind Some days are harder than others to feel grateful. Today is like that for me. Everything feels like a grind - from leadership to client communication, to parenting, to [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Connectedness  Last week's post on solitude got a lot of response.... ironically, as I wrote about solitude I heard back from so many people that I felt very connected! Which made [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Solitude  I'm not an extrovert, but if you met me, you'd probably think I was. I'm not shy in the least and I'm a good conversationalist and it's pretty easy for [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Sisters  This morning I had a call from my sister (my only sibling). We had a rambling conversation that managed to cover everything from global warming, the future of our planet, [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Principles - or maybe, Rules to Live By Now I'm sure that we could get in a big discussion of what a Principle is versus a daily habit or a standard [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Making it Worse  There's a children's book I read to my kids years ago called (I think!) "It Could Always Be Worse." Basically, there's this guy complaining about his small house, [...]