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This is Post 6 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. This post contains affiliate links. No matter how many self-improvement, business, productivity, parenting, success, etc. books line our bookshelves, the truth of the matter is that when it comes to life, there is no instruction manual. How convenient it would be…
This is Post 5 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. Don’t we all need this after the year and a half we’ve had? I know I feel like I do. I created a set of pages in Notion called “Project Get My Shit Together.” For this very task. I feel a…
This is Post 4 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. This is hard to write for many reasons. A big part of why it’s hard to write is that there are still, a year and a half into this thing, people who believe that the pandemic is a big hoax and…
This is Post 3 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. Looking forward is hard to do right now, I’ll be honest. There are a lot of things I would like to do and accomplish, but at the same time my emotional bandwidth is short. Between dealing witth the pandemic and adding…
This is Post 2 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. What a year, eh? When I was a kid, I really wanted to grow up to be a writer and a teacher. In the sixth grade, I spent a lot of time turning my weekly vocabulary words into an ongoing story…
This is Post 1 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. It’s been a bit since I’ve updated this blog, much less this site – and the site update is definitely on my to-do list as a lot has changed in the past couple of years. The biggest news this year…
2020 was a hard year for our family. I won’t get into too many details, but we did wind up with COVID-19 in our household and that impacted everything. My oldest son has permanent lung & heart damage from the virus, and recovery has been slow. My husband and I are expecting baby number five…
We’ve all struggled with days where it seems like everything on our lists is a top priority – I know I have, but how do you get started? Where do you start with your action items? Here are some suggestions for things you can do when everything feels like it’s super-important. Create an Eisenhower Decision…
It’s been a hot minute since I updated this blog with current projects, and a lot has changed since my last update. It’s changed enough that I also need to take some time to update my resume and CV. That’s how much change has happened! It’s fall, the leaves are changing, the air is finally…
Motivation – you either have it or you don’t right? That’s not necessarily true. There’s an ugly truth when it comes to motivation: it often takes motion to keep it going. That’s why you’ll meet some people who will say, “I can’t sit down yet. If I do, I won’t be able to keep going.”…