Making Decisions – Page 2 – Melissa Schlies

Declutter Your Mind (With This Free New Resource!)

Sometimes, things are quieter on the outside of us than they are on the inside. To an observer we may seem calm, cool, collected. But in our mind, it’s the complete opposite. Worries over a project we have at work or tension with our boss weigh on us heavily. Then there are those dreams we’ve been longing to make reality, only it’s never the right time. Not to mention, our mother, father, sister, or brother called yesterday and shared some concerning news about a family member. Earlier, we took a minute to escape from the world. We opened up [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-17T18:27:02+00:00August 19th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Balance, Declutter Your Mind, Freedom, Health, Making Decisions, Preparation, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Back to Basics (Before the Fall)

Two weeks ago, I ran into Target to pick up a few things. I worked my way through the personal care and grocery sections. Then, as I came around a corner, there it was: the back to school section. It was only the middle of July, and Target was telling me to get ready for fall. Now, I could go on and on about how stores are always trying to push us into the next season. Putting Christmas candy out the day after Halloween, putting Easter Candy out the day after Valentine’s Day, etc. But when they put up these [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-29T19:52:23+00:00August 5th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Change, Habit Making, Health, Making Decisions, Preparation, Purpose, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Leadership Tip #23: Learn How to Get Back Up

I was an honor student in high school. Maybe you’ve figured that out by now. Not because I am amazing, but perhaps because I am amazingly detailed. Or at least, I try as hard as I can to be. As a kid who grew up in a good home that faced its fair share of crisis, details became very important to me. The more details I was able to keep track of, at home and at school, the more I could keep things from falling apart. Even better, the greater chance I could succeed. The thing about being an honor [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-11T13:54:11+00:00July 18th, 2019|Categories: Courage, Failure, Fear, Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What if I Make the Wrong Choice?

This wasn’t supposed to be my story. These words found their way into my thoughts as I pulled towels out of the dryer and began folding them. A year and half into being married, at thirty years of age, I was home without a job. Each day, my most pressing responsibilities were doing laundry and making dinner. I was a stay at home wife. I never thought I’d be a stay at home wife. Even if we decided to have kids, I always pictured myself as the working mom. But now, I was what I had judged other women so [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-15T19:43:02+00:00July 15th, 2019|Categories: Change, Courage, Failure, Fear, grief, Hope, Making Decisions, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead July 11, 2019

Recently I was listening to a podcast where the guy being interviewed shared a story of a conversation he had with his wife. Their neighborhood was changing significantly from how it was when they moved there. And they were worried about their children not living close enough to nature. So casually, his wife asked, “Do you think we should move?” Within seconds, in his mind, this man went from selling his house, to selling his car because his commute would change, to getting a tractor to mow the lawn of the new farm they would buy. Some of us have [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-10T19:48:44+00:00July 11th, 2019|Categories: Courage, Fear, Food, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What If

They are the questions we share with our closest people, and sometimes, only utter to ourselves. They are the ones that wake us up at night, and keep us stalled at the intersections of our lives. And they begin with these two little words: “What if…” What if I apply for this job, and I don’t get it? What if I do get the job and I hate it? What if they think my idea is stupid? What if I move, but I can’t find a job? What if no one likes me? What if my friends or family disowns [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-28T19:59:56+00:00July 1st, 2019|Categories: Change, Courage, Fear, Making Decisions|Comments Off

Team Schlies Travel Guide (Repost)

As travel is one of our favorite things, and these tips still serve us well, today I am reposting our Travel Guide. Enjoy! For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. —Aldous Huxley For those of us who love to travel, Huxley’s words seem both dramatic, and somewhat true. Leaving one’s home to explore the world, can take our time, money, energy, and even, our comfort. But, if you’ve been bitten by the wanderlust bug, like we have—for the most part, you’re [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-13T13:25:59+00:00June 20th, 2019|Categories: Food, Freedom, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off

It’s June

It’s June, can you believe it? In three weeks, summer officially begins. But if you live in a similar climate as I do, here in Pennsylvania, you know the best weather of the year is happening right now. The humidity hasn’t set in yet, the mornings are cool, and the temperature hits a pleasant seventy degrees somewhere in the middle of the day. There is something life giving about coming through the cold of winter and the rains of spring, and stepping into the warm, bright days of summer. The days are longer, meaning it is easier to get up [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-29T20:06:36+00:00June 3rd, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Freedom, Hope, Making Decisions, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What Holds Us Back: The Fear of Criticism

"What will people think?” Sometimes, what is holding us back is as simple as these four little words. Seconded only by “What will people say?” The power that these two small questions have is incalculable. Because, no matter where we were born, what our family was like, or where we went to school, we all know the sting of criticism. And it is our natural response to try to avoid the pain. Only what happens when the thing you know you’re meant to do, the thing you should do, or the thing you can’t stop dreaming about—could put you in [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-04-18T14:50:53+00:00April 22nd, 2019|Categories: Anxiety, Calling, Change, Courage, Failure, Fear, Freedom, Hope, Making Decisions, perseverance, Rejection, Success, Uncategorized|4 Comments

I’m Hearing Voices, How About You?

“When I was your age, I had to walk to school through the snow, barefoot. And it was uphill both ways.” How many of us heard those words, or something similar, growing up? In other words, life is hard, so suck it up. Perhaps that is why, when I was twenty-two, I was walking through the snow with bronchial pneumonia, to get to a bus that would take me to work. I just thought that’s what adults do. We ignore our ailments and suppress our pain. We “suck it up,” and do what is expected of us. Only now, I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-02-25T15:45:39+00:00February 25th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Balance, Character, discipline, Habit Making, Health, Making Decisions, perseverance, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Declutter Your Mind (With This Free New Resource!)

Back to Basics (Before the Fall)

Leadership Tip #23: Learn How to Get Back Up

What if I Make the Wrong Choice?

Love Learn Lead July 11, 2019

What If

Team Schlies Travel Guide (Repost)

It’s June

What Holds Us Back: The Fear of Criticism

I’m Hearing Voices, How About You?

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