Spinning your wheels trying to get everything done in your day? Decrease frustration and increase productivity with these simple tips. We all have those days that we planned to accomplish a lot only to discover the time got hoovered away by some unforeseen event. It isn’t your fault if a water pipe bursts, your kids…
How Ready Are You for the Grand Finale?
The End of the World predictions made another tour on tongues around the globe recently. It seems every so many years, we hear about the most recent reasons why the end is imminent. Despite current events, now isn’t the darkest time in world history. But according to the keepers of the doomsday clock, we’re only…
Are You Heading for a Health Meltdown?
Hello, there! Thanks for hanging with me while I was away. It’s wonderful to be back. I’ve got some life-changing discoveries to share with you! When my 26-year-old daughter, Sam, and I discussed my being part of her postpartum recovery, my days were already full. Two part-time jobs, a freelance business, a husband and mentoring…
How to Fight Back when Defeating Doubt Stops You Cold
“What’s your topic for our upcoming one on one meeting?” In a recent online class, the instructor emailed the question and the air froze in my lungs. It didn’t matter that I had been out of school for decades. Suddenly, I’m in the 7th grade, mind filled with a black void where my running mental commentary…
Surprisingly Simple Ways to Balance Devastating News
You only have to open your eyes in the morning to know that somewhere in the world something terrible has happened. Sometimes, bad news presses the panic button in us and we feel overwhelming sadness, fear or a persistent state of doom. You may feel as though you have no control over the constant assault…
Sailing into Fall
I wanted to let you know again that I really appreciate you coming by to read. We just had a major holiday weekend and I hope yours was pleasant, the people you spent it with were wonderful and you laughed lots, danced in the sun or played in the water. It’s been an exciting and…
Can A Positive Attitude Face Down Life’s Storms?
In the 21st century, some meteorologists are so accurate that can predict not only the storm but tell you the time it will begin to rain and when it will finish. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a personal meteorologist to predict the storms of our lives? “At such and such a time, you will…
How Does Your Garden Grow?
You can’t reap a harvest if you don’t plant. But, that isn’t the only thing that can prevent your harvest.
It’s Easy for You [Part two]
Last week we left off with Callie, the young woman at the beginning of her adult life who discovered that she had choices. She wasn’t ready for marriage or the responsibility of raising a child. The father of the baby wanted to marry but didn’t want to work. Callie struggled with drinking and substance abuse and…
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