In American culture, it’s very popular to discuss goals around the new year. From the day after Christmas, into the first half of January, goal setting tends to dominate our dialogue. Personally, my FAVORITE time of year to revisit goals and jump into massive action is August, and here are the reasons why: Most people […]
OOOOF! I’ve done it before and now I’m doing it again. I am publishing on the internet something very personal and vulnerable to me because I believe it will help others. In the past, I published my family’s monthly budget, my full home birth story, and the story behind why my husband and I each […]
Did you know that every now and then life will hand you a gift you probably won’t recognize? When we have a major life-changing event, we are presented with an opportunity to create new habits at the snap of our fingers. Traditionally, changing too many habits at once is nearly impossible. For most people, your […]
Limiting beliefs are the most common obstacle holding us back. A limiting belief is something we believe to be true about ourselves or our circumstances but is not based on fact. We THINK it’s a fact, but when we break it down, it’s a story we are telling ourselves is true. Recently on a coaching […]
This week it’s time to get back to the basics. Although I refer to the “7 spokes” almost every week, it has been quite some time since we talked on the blog about what they are. Our lives are a complex balance of many areas. If you’re anything like me, you often feel like an […]
This quote came across my Instagram stories last week, “You don’t inspire others by being perfect. You inspire them by how you deal with your imperfections.” Immediately, I resonated with it at a very deep level. I had never been able to put language to what I was trying to create with this blog and […]
Beginning April 7, I released a blog once a week for 42 straight weeks. After over a decade of desiring to be a consistent blogger, I proved to myself I could do it. I made a commitment and saw it through. And then last week I did not. It was the first time I missed […]
There was a season of my life I participated in hustle culture, mostly from my teen years through early twenties. I believed that burning the candle at both ends and running myself ragged would help me get to the top faster. I specifically remember one speaker in college who greatly inspired me. He was a […]
Since most of my readers have discovered this blog in the last few months, that means many of you weren’t around last year when I did a 30-day series where I blogged every single day with habit tips for the 7 spokes of the wheel of life. I thought today was appropriate to provide a […]
We all know what it feels like to have the wind sucked out of us when disappointment takes over. It’s an awful feeling. I used to experience it much more often, until I learned a valuable lesson: Setting expectations only leads to unnecessary disappointment. In 2009, tears streamed down my cheeks the whole way home […]