What You’ll Hear in this Episode Yesterday was Easter Sunday and so we had all our children and grandchildren and my mom over for a celebration. We have 14 grandchildren – 12 of them under the age of 7. You know how you struggle with loud kids? Well, they don’t get quieter when they’re grown – only louder! So add 13 adults to those 14 grandchildren and you…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode Ep 62 – Monday Mindset – Being Intentional Being intentional in our lives is living with a conscious or deliberate path. It’s making the decisions about who you want to be and how you want to live BEFORE life happens and drags you through the day. When we’re not living with intention, we go through the motions of the day feeling like…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode: Thirty-five years ago I experienced mom guilt for the first time. My first baby was 10 months old and crawling towards a small bookshelf I had with some beautiful porcelain statues. I quickly approached her and slapped her hand (just hard enough to get her attention) and said, “NO!” and moved her away. She turned to look at me, bewildered (this was…
What You’ll Hear: Are you stuck in the past? Letting our past mistakes define us is neither true to who we are nor show us the possibilities of who we can become or what we can achieve. It’s true that we would be losing a great learning opportunity if we don’t learn from our mistakes, but it would be a great disservice to ourselves if we let the…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode Whether we’re talking about our relationship with our spouse, the way we parent, or the how we keep our home, in order to be effective we need to attend to 3 tools in our lives: Our Knowledge or the what and the how Our Mindset And Our Why All three are required to progress toward living the life we’ve always dreamed of…
What You’ll Hear in this Episode: Marriage – don’t decide his thoughts for him. We get into so much conflict because we decide what our spouse is thinking, then we hold onto all the negative feelings about those thoughts. More often than not, our spouse is not thinking the worst of us or of the situation like we believe he is. If you’re not sure what his thoughts…
What You’ll Hear: What is the one thing you must do today to make today feel like a success? Is it get through the day without giving into impatience? Is it 15 minutes of prayer that you always seem to put off? Is it following through with cleanup after meals? Or turning around and making your bed as soon as you get out of it? We try to…
What You’ll Hear: Victor Frankl was a noted author, psychiatrist and most importantly a Holocaust survivor. Hi pregnant wife was killed in a concentration camp. His mother, father, and brother were also killed in concentration camps. From his experiences in Auschwitz, and the loss of his family, he learned what the primary purpose of life was – a search for meaning which sustained those who survived. In his…
What You’ll Hear: Children are so vulnerable. We forget that they aren’t adults and they don’t hear things as adults nor process our words as maybe an adult might. What we say communicates our thoughts to our children. They believe those thoughts mainly because they haven’t had enough experience nor maturity to disbelieve them. When we say things like, “I can’t believe you screwed that up again!” What’s…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode Do you struggle with not being enough? Do you think you’re not kind enough, pretty enough, smart enough, or just not good enough? Somewhere along the way someone or maybe many people felt free to tell us we were not enough. And we believed them. When you have marital issues, is your thought, “I’m not a good enough wife?” Do you think,…