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Does a Dragon Live Near You?
Penny the Procrastination Dragon Lives Near Me…But Behind Her Lives the REAL Dragon :(
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near one.”
– JRR Tolkien
No, it does not.
Does a dragon live near you? You know, someone who gets your goat, foils your plans, burns up your daily task list with their oh-so-demanding breath of fire…smashes through every boundary you put in place with a quick swish of their spiky tail?
There are many types of dragons, of course…some are real, some imaginary, some are internal, some external. But a dragon is a dragon and regardless of their size, variety and/or location of their lair, if one lives near you, it is wise to include them in your calculations.
Why? Because most dragons aren’t going away anytime soon. So unless you want to keep running away from them, you best identify who they are, where they live, what they want, and how best to handle them.
I used to have a few dragons in my life — of the human variety.
But the dragon I am dealing with these days is of the internal variety. This dragon lives in my mind. She is not a fire-breather. In fact, she is soft-spoken, polite, and rather…
