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    Moxie Moves: 10 Easy Ways to Make a Powerful Difference
    Moxie Moves: 10 Easy Ways to Make a Powerful Difference
    Moxie Moves: 10 Easy Ways to Make a Powerful Difference
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    Moxie Moves: 10 Easy Ways to Make a Powerful Difference

    By Sally B Sedgwick

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    Some say what we do in our daily lives doesn't matter in the total scheme of things, but there are actually multiple things we can do. and it can be easy. You know those things where you say, "if only everyone did [whatever]"? Moxie Moves explores ten of these as ways to help positively change the world, and in the process ourselves. While partly based on chaos theory, chaos can result in the positive as well as the negative, these actions also become a personal challenge. It has been shown that knowing you make a difference improves happiness and productivity. Here each Move is described briefly, is accompanied by exercises, and includes an artist's response to the word or term. The ten actions used in the book are smile, be grateful, sleep, be litter free, learn, listen, love your body, keep your word, vote, and play. Every chapter is an effective conversation starter for sharing ideas with others, but primarily they are presented as a prompt for individuals to explore and adopt simple ways to make powerful differences for themselves and the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSally B Sedgwick
    Release dateNov 9, 2020
    ISBN9781733864220
    Moxie Moves: 10 Easy Ways to Make a Powerful Difference
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    Sally B Sedgwick

    B Sedgwick has lived and worked throughout the United States exploring how people connect and grow. This has included studying theatre in Alaska, teaching poetry and English in North Dakota, and facilitating women's programs in New York and Chicago. For ten years she was the associate director of Forward Movement Publications in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she currently lives. Her ongoing project Spirit Moxie is a world-wide network of people, writing, and workshops to help individuals discover positive differences they themselves can make in the world through small, achievable shifts in thinking and actions. This work can be found at http://www.spiritmoxie.com.

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      Moxie Moves - Sally B Sedgwick

      Moxie Moves

      10 easy ways to make a powerful difference

      Moxie Moves

      10 easy ways to make a powerful difference

      © 2019 by Sally B. Sedgwick

      All Rights Reserved

      Art © 2019 by Cynthia Jane Collins

      All Rights Reserved

      ISBN 978-1-7338642-0-6

      e-ISBN 978-1-7338642-1-3

      Cover design by www.bookcreatives.com

      Published by Spirit Moxie

      www.spiritmoxie.com

      In memory of Jim, who always made a difference to whomever he met and through whatever he did; who always believed in me; and who will always hold part of my heart.

      …once or twice [Alice] had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures and conversation?

      Lewis Carroll*, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

      *See Resources, p. 96

      Thank You

      Giving thanks is a great privilege, or in this case, a gift to actually put into words my appreciation for those who have loved and supported me in this strange process of committing words to paper — and for being the people for whom the words were written.

      First and foremost is everyone who either likes the Spirit Moxie Facebook page and/or receives updates from the Spirit Moxie website. Without your encouragement and questions, even in anonymity, there was no reason for this book. The reason became the challenge to make clear in still another way your importance in the world and to me.

      But some of you are not anonymous, and I know you well, especially my family and close personal friends. Thank you Pete, Andrew, and Tukta for being slightly amused by your eccentric mom and for your ongoing encouragement. I especially appreciate and love those friends who support the vision of Spirit Moxie: Elizabeth Ring, who read the very first draft of this book and always champions and evaluates; Thea Teich, who struggles to make my prose linear and coherent; Gary Templeton, who uses his multiple skills in multiple ways through photographs, graphics, and web wisdom; Mercurial Puck, who took on the daunting task of editing this text; Linda Kocis, who became a perfect brainstorming partner; David A. Lynch, who supplied proven proofreading skills (although note that any errors are mine, and mine alone); Sandy Eichert and Rick Wiley, who embraced the challenge of making the inside of this book beautiful and easy to read; my original coach Lissa Rankin*, who helped name and form Spirit Moxie’s vision; and my current coach Marleen Duval, who constantly offers support and challenge. This book also honors the memory of the creative and talented Michael Philips, who designed the Spirit Moxie logo and created its professional and beautiful brand design.

      Plus there are those who have helped me mold ideas, a much more precarious list since it certainly began when I was say, seven, and wrote my first published poem. These are people who, usually unknowingly, have given me encouragement, inspiration, and advice. An endless list, if only because I know I have forgotten many. There are some in Resources at the end of the book, but here I give great thanks to Martha Beck*, whose work has instilled in me a conviction that the world works when we follow our true selves, and Shawn Achor*, whose wit and wisdom engages me, and whose statistics give this work credibility with the fact that knowing you make a difference makes a major difference in you. Finally, there is J. A. Jance*, whom I wrote to when I referred to her mystery novels in a Spirit Moxie Conversation piece (I was writing about procrastination) and, while she appreciated the reference, took the time to remind me that real authors write. And so I have.

      As I seem incapable of writing at home, my thanks wouldn’t be complete without acknowledging the numerous public libraries, coffee shops, and cafés who provide the neutral spaces and reliable WiFi connections that seems to create the only environment where I can consistently even try to do anything creative. So I give special thanks to the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, as well as libraries everywhere I travel from Brooklyn to San Francisco to El Paso. (All in the United States.) I don’t dare try to begin naming coffee shops, but I am especially grateful to those my computer remembers. It makes working so much easier!

      In the midst of writing this book, my friendship with the talented and sensitive Cynthia Jane Collins morphed from a conversation about her doing appropriate black and white illustrations for my ten Moxie Moves into her contemplating and interpreting these ten as multi-media art,

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