You can find the “Reimagine Your Motherhood” workbook discussed in this episode HERE. This Sunday, we’re celebrating Mother’s Day here in the United States. And instead of hoping and praying that our family members remember and do something nice for us – I hope they do – let’s stop and reflect on who we are as mothers. When we think of our motherhood there are all kinds of…
What You’ll Hear in This Episode In the business world there’s a mindset shift to quarterly sprints – some call it the 90-day year. Basically, you break the year into 4 quarters and concentrate on each quarter as if it is the whole year. You make quarterly goals and spend the 3 months of that quarter just focusing on achieving those goals. When you focus for 3 months…
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 Having your whole social life in a hand held device is inhuman. How much of your life is tied to or generated by your phone? Seek out human interaction again. A phone can’t hug you. It can’t love you. And it won’t be there when you really need someone. This has been a challenging COVID year. Make the switch back to real…
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…
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