Sometimes your kids amaze you. Everyone of my kids has already surpassed me in some way. Today I want to show you something my oldest daughter created – it will inspire you. I’ve been reading Jeremiah. I keep asking myself – what gods am I serving other than God? What do the golden calves of today look […]
Are you buried in stuff? Life is messy, and when we are under stress, we seem to stop culling our stuff, and start storing it. Six month (or six years) later, we are buried by so many things we lose energy. We stop paying attention to our surroundings, and just focus on surviving. So, three […]
My house cleaning is, at best, done in spits and spurts. For years I transitioned the house from one phase to the next as the kids grew – every six months I went through all the clothes and stuff to make sure we were still using them. The rest of the year, I just hoped that […]
Leadership is important. Without leadership, people flail, and their efforts dissipate. While good leaders bring order and find a product that is more than the sum of the parts, poor leadership can bring destruction and pain. Often, those who are on a negative leadership path fail to see the implications of their behavior because they have already […]
Last week, I got to the end of Tuesday, and found myself wondering – why was this such a bad day? We all have them, and the worst is that they don’t always announce themselves. I mean, if you know you are going to get three teeth pulled, you anticipate a difficult day; but there […]
“Life is so, so……daily!” Have you noticed that sometimes days and weeks go by, and you only manage to keep your head above water? You have big goals, but today, your main goal is to stay upright. There are days that I run from morning to night. Okay – most days I run from morning […]
Today, I spent the day budgeting. There are a couple of ways to manage your life – moment by moment, and planned and on purpose. The truth is, you either manage your life, or it will manage you. There are a lot of ways that budgeting helps us in life. Budget time. Every one of […]
At the beginning of 2012, I posted a new way to look at the new year, based on oneword365.com. (See that post here.) When I wrote the post, I thought that my word for the year “forward” was only going to be a quarterly word. I find it amazing that the word really did shape […]
Life has a lot of distractions. Sometimes the biggest distraction is our own ambition. We make big goals – goals so big that they just sit someplace in our future, waiting to happen. These goals are often so big that we feel like they are impossible. Here are some goals that might feel so huge they […]
Tonight, my husband wasn’t feeling well and went to bed early. I went through the house telling everyone to be quiet. Then the child with a cold started talking… REALLY Loud. Then the youngest tripped and spilled something – it sounded like marbles, but was probably cereal. In the process of helping her clean it up, the […]