Being grateful is work sometimes. Really hard work. I get so bogged down with email and to-dos and life moves so fast some days that I completely lose sight of the gifts right in front and inside and all around me. Let’s look at some of the gifts of this moment: I have fingers to type this. Ten of them! I have a nose to breathe clean air through. I have a cup of water sitting next to me. Clear,…
UPDATED: Abbie is the randomly-chosen winner! : ) I’ve felt this need to get my LIFE in order since Grace was born. Having her made me feel this immediate need to take responsibility for the areas of my life where I felt I wasn’t so skilled and I felt like I finally had to do the things I had on my mental Life To-Do List. This may sound strange, but I was ready to grow up. The kind of growing…
One of the biggest things I learned from the Making Things Happen Conference last week was that I have been feeding myself a lot of negative mental junk lately. I’ve been telling myself I can’t write this book. I will fail. I am not a good writer. So, I am fighting to re-write that dialogue in my head and in my heart. You see, we do this to ourselves. This self-sabatoge is what holds us back from greatness. At our…
I am going to try something new the next weeks: writing blog posts and not stressing over them being perfect. DONE is better than perfect and, though I have a lot lot lot of writing to do in the next 12 weeks (more on that next), I also feel called to write a lot here. I want to practice writing here most days and just getting the thoughts out of my head. Done is better than perfect. Because the good…