Is your planner pretty or is your planner functional? Here’s how to tell: If you buy stickers and highlighters, colored pens and washi tape, and planner inserts, and planner covers, but you haven’t completed one big goal this month, your planner is not functional. If you spend more time decorating and setting up your planner…
Category: Live & Learn
Blog Format
The next step – blog format. Last week I dealt with learning what to blog about, this week I’m focusing on my blog format. Unexpected Outcome I went through my posts from last month, all 28 posts. I learned I need to add a new step to this process. Edits. In my haste to put…
Top Ten Discoveries This Week
I devour new information. Questions sprout in my mind throughout the day and I feel the need to learn. Nothing is off-limits: I want to know the best hand creams, the best Chrome Extensions, the best productivity apps for my phone, I want to find Ghost towns and little-known trails, I want quick party recipes,…
A Week of Meditation
Lately, I’ve been agitated. On edge. Easily frustrated. A huge part of that is I haven’t been running or walking as much. Another part is that I’m loading my plate a bit more and setting higher goals, increasing my writing productivity. My husband (Mr. Skeptic) told me meditation can help. Mind you, he doesn’t meditate….
Know Your Personality
If you know your personality, then you can better identify your triggers and your soul-soothers. The other day my friend and I volunteered for our kids’ high school band program by helping out at a dog show. We walked laps around the building and chatted. We are opposites on the social spectrum. M’s personality is…
Fun Bits For the Week
We all need fun moments, tiny bits of laughter, and motivation. Today, I thought I’d share some of the fun bits I’ve stumbled upon. The Odd: I think it’s the “again” that makes me snort. Maybe “reporting party” should ask the neighbor to share vet, food, and grooming costs? In…
5 Tips for Those Who Carpool
Over the years I’ve heard of moms who carpool kids between activities and school. Always seemed like a good idea, save on gas, give yourself a breather once in a while, etc… This year a group of us parents hooked up and decided to set up a carpool. I was thrilled because our kids have been…
Exercise on a Tight Budget
As a writer, I sit more than I should admit. I can get awful cranky when I don’t expend enough energy. Especially, if I’m mentally taxing my brain, but not my body. Exercise is a must: It keeps the oxygen pumping to my brain, it makes me feel accomplished when I push myself to train…
Thoughts On…
(Apparently, my second-grade teacher approved when I learned how to think ) Today is a random thought day. A day where all the thoughts I’ve collected over the past few years are begging to be heard outside of my journal pages. Some, I may have shared, some I have not. Whatever the case, they are…
The 5 Best Resources for Introverts
Introverts are okay Introverts rejoice! We’re finally getting some love. Blog posts, websites, magazines, and books are letting the rest of the world know that there’s nothing wrong with us. Finally, we’re not told to come out of our shells, stop daydreaming, and socialize more. Okay, we’re still told this, but at least we have…