Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to Monday.

Monday. Hopefully your weekend went well and if you are ready or not this is the week all about love.

You know we're going to be bombarded with it all week in the newspapers, on the news.

Anywhere we go, this week is going to be in dedication to Valentine's Day, whether we want to be or not.

And what I always look at it as something along the lines of

February 14th is simply a day with a posted on it as a reminder of what we should do all the other 364 days of the year.

In other words, reminding those we love that we do care about them, that they're in our

thoughts.

And if we make something special on that 14th of February, fantastic, but why not do it the rest of the year as well.

This coming Wednesday on Thoughts from the Editor, stop by the blog and I'll share a few ways to

celebrate Valentine's Day that may be a little less traditional or conventional but nonetheless

worthwhile whether you're single or spending it with someone. Anyway on that note

because it is Valentine's Week I started thinking about this

particular topic a while ago and I was like this would be a perfect week to talk

about this. I initially started thinking about this idea of what the difference is

between a man and a boy. And as I started thinking about that, I was

realizing that you know what, I am not a man or a boy, I am a female. And so it really isn't something that maybe I should dive into just yet.

And so instead, after reading an article over this past weekend, that basically prompted readers to consider the following,

if things in your life are not going as planned or an

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