Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Moving Far From Home

Years ago, I talked to an expat who had lived overseas for over thirty years. He said that after being away from your country of origin for ten years, your sense of where you come from shifts. Your idea of home gets muddled. Because all your recent history has been spent in a place other than where you grew up, you begin to feel like you belong where you are, more than where you’re from.  Living in a different culture for so many years, I am sure, enhanced his experience even more so. But now, after living fifteen years in [...]

By |2019-09-04T13:32:33+00:00September 26th, 2019|Categories: Acceptance, Adulting, Change, Freedom, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Preparation, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Moving Far From Home

When Your Social Situation Changes

It’s so easy to take the leap into the job or dream we want, and not realize until later what we’ve lost. That somehow by moving toward something fantastic, we could also be moving away from something equally important. I can think of a few instances in my life where that happened, and most notably the loss was often Friendship. When our friends have always been there for us, we kind of assume they will be there in our next phase as well. That like our favorite pair of jeans or that blanket we got in Mexico, we can pack [...]

By |2019-09-04T13:20:24+00:00September 23rd, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Change, Friendship, Relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off on When Your Social Situation Changes

Five Tools That Make My Life Better—& May Make Your’s Better Too!

When we got married, Tony had these two identical kitchen knives. As they cut better than any knives I owned, they became our go-to for making dinner. We both love to cook, especially together. So after nine years of marriage, these knives have become well-worn. Recently, after some frustrating incidents of trying to cut steak or even normal raw potatoes, it became clear that we needed some new knives. Tony found some online, and they were delivered to our door. Then about a week later, I went to make a meal that involved chopping a lot of vegetables. As I [...]

By |2019-08-17T20:04:25+00:00August 29th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Balance, Declutter Your Mind, Habit Making, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Five Tools That Make My Life Better—& May Make Your’s Better Too!

Setting Our Intentions For Fall

Sometimes, the things that seem so simple—or perhaps even, silly—are those we need most to do in life. Brush your teeth. Make your bed. Drink plenty of water. Wash your hands. All of these examples have become obvious necessities in our culture. Yet, with some of them we still struggle. Maybe it’s because we don’t like being told what to do. Maybe it’s that life is too busy to pull the covers over our bed in the morning. Or, who has the time to make sure they’re drinking sixty-four ounces of water a day? Only deep down, we all know [...]

By |2019-08-17T19:54:35+00:00August 26th, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Declutter Your Mind, discipline, Habit Making, Preparation, Purpose, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Setting Our Intentions For Fall

Love Learn Lead August 22, 2019

Every now and then, I hear a woman my age or older lament that they didn’t have Pinterest when they got married. That it would have been so much easier to plan their wedding if they had been able to pin countless ideas of what to do for centerpieces. But whenever I hear this, I disagree. Yes, there are certainly benefits to having a million decorative ideas at our fingertips. Especially, for those of us who are design challenged. But what I am finding with Pinterest and so much of our online world, is that on some level, it is [...]

By |2019-08-17T18:58:00+00:00August 22nd, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Declutter Your Mind, Health, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead August 22, 2019

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 |2019-08-17T18:27:02+00:00August 19th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Balance, Declutter Your Mind, Freedom, Health, Making Decisions, Preparation, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Declutter Your Mind (With This Free New Resource!)

Three Lies We Believe About Exercise

At the beginning of this summer, Tony pulled out our bikes. He dusted them off, pumped up the tires, and loaded them on the back of our car. Then, for a few weekends in a row, we hit some of our local trails. It had been a few years since we had been biking, and I’d forgotten how much fun it can be.  Each ride, we went for a longer distance than we had before. We found a trail nearby that is mostly paved and shaded, which became our favorite. Tony and I were having a great time and I [...]

By |2019-08-15T11:48:14+00:00August 15th, 2019|Categories: #mybodyhas, Body Image, Habit Making, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Three Lies We Believe About Exercise

Trouble with Self Care? Start With Scrambled Eggs

Often, the first thing to go when I hit a busy season, or we return from a trip, is exercise. Though I’d also say it’s tied with maintaining a healthy diet. Once our routines are interrupted, Tony and I seem to gravitate more easily toward snack foods and the couch, than our running shoes and a protein packed smoothie. This makes the summer a perfect time for us to slack off when it comes to taking care of ourselves. And, I have a feeling, we’re not alone. But, fall is coming. Once our routines are interrupted, Tony and I seem [...]

By |2019-08-09T14:50:46+00:00August 12th, 2019|Categories: #mybodyhas, Balance, Body Image, discipline, Food, Freedom, Habit Making, Health, Self Care, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Trouble with Self Care? Start With Scrambled Eggs

Love Learn Lead August 8, 2019

In my previous life, ok about eight years ago, I was a youth pastor. For part of my job, a couple of times a year, I would take a group of teens on trips. Sometimes they were mission trips to other countries, during the winters it was weekend retreats, and for a few summers we used to take over a hundred teenagers on a four day camping trip to a music festival. You read that right, over a hundred students. I am sure there are ministries who have much bigger groups than we did, but it was quite an undertaking. [...]

By |2019-07-29T20:09:37+00:00August 8th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Change, Habit Making, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead August 8, 2019

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 |2019-07-29T19:52:23+00:00August 5th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Change, Habit Making, Health, Making Decisions, Preparation, Purpose, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Back to Basics (Before the Fall)

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