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Love Yourself – Actions Speak Louder than Words
We can't live balanced, meaningful lives if we don't love ourselves - and show it. Loving ourselves looks like: Not overworking ourselves to exhaustion Challenging ourselves Setting and enforcing boundaries Spending time alone - listening, learning, growing...
Life is a Journey. Are you on your path?
Ever heard the phrase "life is a journey"? It sounds a bit hokey to some. I think others feel like they are on a hamster wheel - just repeating the same steps day after day. It can be very hard to see progress until one day you look back and ask, "where has all the...
Working Through Hard Times
Ever have work to do but some awful, or even traumatic, event just seems to overshadow it all? You can't even think about work during these hard times. You don't want to do anything but (maybe) distract yourself. But life is still happening around you. Things need to...
Refocus on Monday
It's easy to get swept up in doing the next thing. I feel it all the time. I want to keep momentum and I'm also in the "doing" mode so I just keep going. The last thing I want to do is stop because I feel like I'll never start again. Here's the problem, if I don't...
3 Steps to Move Forward When You’re Stuck
Week 2 of the new year is when I start seeing messages from a lot of people saying they are stuck. They look like this: "I can't get started.""Why is this so hard!?""I can't bring myself to open it." First of all, if this is you, please know this is so common. We all...
Disengage from Distractions
It's the first Monday of the year and I'm sure you're motivated to reach some goals. Me too. It's exciting to think what this year will bring. Success is on the horizon and we have a lot to do! Just be sure to stop doing a lot too. What do I mean by that? Think back...
2022 Goals Worksheet – Free Download
2021 was another rollercoaster. We had some great moments and some struggles. If anything has become more clear to me, it's that we need to take advantage of the good moments as best we can. Be present.Use a good tailwind to get some momentum and regroup so that you...
Protect Your Time
While writing my last post to you about anxiety, I was getting interrupted constantly. Lynn was trying to complete the kids health insurance, Luanne had questions about work stuff, and a neighbor was texting about what to bring to a party this weekend. Nothing wrong...
Anxiety Sucks – How to stop it in 3 steps
Anxiety is common. Everyone experiences it. Some of us are paralyzed by it. While I've seldom experienced anxiety to the extend that it was debilitating, I can appreciate that it happens to a lot of people. Quite often, I see Define My Day users that mention it. They...