In 2009, I posted a blog entry answering a question I’d recently been emailed: “How do you make things happen?” That blog post (“How to Make Things Happen“) started making waves. Those waves grew quickly into a movement of women who wanted to finally do the things they’d always wanted to do. A friend suggested I take the ideas I had shared in that post on the road and teach them. Before I knew it, Emily Ley, Gina Zeidler and I were traveling all…
Well, friends… A lot has happened since I wrote to you 32 days ago! As I was writing my June goals post to you, the Southern Weddings announcement day was coming a few days later. I was admittedly nervous—I cried just about every day for two weeks (sometimes a few tears and sometimes a legit ugly cry!), partly in sadness but mostly in gratitude for the last decade. I was nervous, but also excited to share the news with you…
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. – Jim Rohn Wow! Does that hit you like it does me? Every time we talk about this concept at the Making Things Happen Conference, it changes us. Those five people could be family members, friends, or even people on social media you’ve never met. The people and things we allow into our lives the most have a profound effect on our thoughts—and our future outcomes. This is…
I started Southern Weddings magazine late one night with a husband deployed to war and no formal training in journalism or publishing. I didn’t have experience, but I did have more passion than a hen has feathers. I wanted to inspire couples to tell their unique love stories, rich with family history and rooted in the culture of this place we call home—the South. The place where my grandparents had lived out their own love story decades before—a love story…
Imagine it. December 31st rolls around. You’re sitting down to dinner with family or friends, and you talk together about the story of the last 6 months. What story will you tell? The stories of our lives are made up of little decisions we make each day. Do we say yes or no? Do we start something new or grow what we already have? Do we move forward or stay right where we are? We can’t predict the future—our lives…