When my kids were little, I thought I would lose it. After all, I had four kids, my oldest needed to be homeschooled for elementary school, and I had the other three in four years. In my house, no one slept, everyone lost their temper from time to time, one child only wanted ketchup sandwiches, […]
With the time change comes a real need: get energy – anywhere we can. Today, I took a look at my need for exercise in an attempt to convince myself to get to the gym. I used a fun matrix to work through these thoughts: SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats Strengths – the joy […]
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 […]
Expectations is a daunting word. Every day, we face not only other people’s expectations, but our own. We also face that grey zone of what we think other people expect of us. How do you deal with all these expectations? Here are a few things that might help: 1. Communication. People don’t know what you […]
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 […]
Almost six years ago, I drew a diagram on a napkin. I proposed that we look at the church in a new way – a way that would make sense and allow every member to live up to their full potential – not only inside the church, but in their every day world. You might […]
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 […]
Do you remember that giddy feeling of anticipation? Your heart pumps, your skin tingles – you feel almost like you could leap through time…as you wait. There is a commercial this year that shows four kids, probably ages 2-5, sitting on a couch with headlamps on. They bubble over with excitement and anticipation as their […]