Rewriting with Ronna Detrick

Rewriting with Ronna Detrick

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Choosing Ordinary over Extraordinary

Choosing Ordinary over Extraordinary

Letting go of the pressure to be anything other than who we actually and already are.

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Ronna Detrick
Nov 26, 2023
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The desire, temptation, and lure to live an extraordinary life is strong; to figure out our “one thing;” to do, create, be, achieve, rise up, astonish, accomplish, shine.

It’s exhausting.

And it’s a relatively new phenomenon. Far before pressing and capitalism-induced questions like “what is my life’s purpose,” everyday…

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