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Motivational Monday!
After church yesterday, Doug and I went to brunch and then out for a for a little walk around the beautiful surrounding neighborhood. While we were walking along 9th street I noticed this gorgeous bloom. By itself, there is nothing peculiar about this flower, but if...
Target Practice
My mother-in-law was visiting us from Saturday until yesterday. She is a very young 80-something, current with technology, and actively uses her fit-bit! She and I both have step targets each day and we were dalkingiscussing how we try to reach them. Here's the...
A 40-Day Challenge
This morning I was scrolling through Spotify to find a meditation that "jumped out at me." There are a lot of free mediations on Spotify that are amazing and you can choose one for almost any topic—and I mean ANY topic. It's such a rich resource for anyone interested...
Motivational Monday!
I spent the better part of this weekend in Camden, NJ—not something someone says very often, right? I am on the board of UrbanPromise International and this past weekend was our Summit and semi-annual in-person board meeting. I always leave these weekends absolutely...
Friday’s Quote
"Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you." John C. Maxwell My brother-in-law sent me something from LinkedIn about "The Long Game for Personal and Professional Growth, and it was both funny and true. The author, Uzma Bhatti, begins with...
Adam Grant Says…
I was reading an article by Adam Grant about the habits that highly successful people practice on a regular basis. He posted 11 habits and, even though none of these 11 habits flabbergasted me as novel or unheard of, they all held so much weight in their simplicity....
This Is Exactly What I Need
Yesterday was a really long day—great, but long. I had back-to-back meetings, the dog needed to be picked up at the groomer, I was trying to make dinner, and I had a yoga class at 6:30pm that my friend was teaching and I did not want to disappoint. Somewhere around...
Doubt It
Have you ever noticed when something comes up for you that you see it in multiple different places as if the Universe is forcing you to pay attention? It very often happens with cars, once you buy a new car; you see that particular car everywhere. For me, it's more...
Motivational Monday!
I was trying to watch the Philadelphia Eagles play the Dallas Cowboys yesterday, but it was blacked out in my area, so my only option was to watch the NFL Network's RedZone. I'm not a huge fan of the RedZone mainly because it is like watching a 5-year-old with ADHD...
Friday’s Quote
"Be careful how you're talking to yourself because you're listening." ~ Lisa Hayes Today is about self love. What we say to ourselves matters and we rarely correct ourselves. We simply allow the abuse to go on and on without saying, "Enough! This self-deprecating talk...