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Health Goal Series
Health Post #1 What is my goal? The plain and simple version of my first goal is this: I want to be and feel healthy–to attain a level of health that allows me to thrive and live a life full of energy and adventure. To be completely open with you, when I initially set this…
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All About Goal-setting and Achieving
Why Goal-setting and Achieving? Primarily, my intent with this blog is to create many series of posts that are focused around different goals. Each initial post will explain what the goal is, why I am working towards it, and how I intend to achieve my goal. I also want to share general goal-related tips with…
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3 Steps to Make Amends
Are you ever about to say something and the moment the words are about to leave your mouth, before they’re fully out, but after you’ve put forth the effort to create them, you realize they’re the wrong words to say? Ugh. I did this today. And my words were pointed at my best friend…my husband.…
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The Noise in My Head
What do I even write about today? I’m not feeling ultra inspiring or inspired. Right now, life for me is a balance of two sides: things I want to do (feeling positive pressure), and things I know I should be doing (ahem…some guilty feelings here). I look at my wall and feel happy and sad…
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Moving Forward with Purpose
For the 3 years before COVID I avidly, constantly, and enthusiastically went to self-improvement classes. I signed up for group mentoring, one-on-one mentoring, I created my own mentoring programs, I taught classes, I created a mentoring program with my husband specifically geared towards couples. I felt so unstoppable and motivated! It seemed like I could…
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Right-Side Up
The world has turned upside-down. Does it feel that way to you? I am a pretty conservative person. I grew up in a religious home, with conservative parents, in a conservative community. I grew up being taught standards and beliefs that I eventually decided to accept as my own. I believe in God, in goodness,…
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Why I Started Homeschooling
How to Come to Terms with Something You Know You Should Do, but Don’t Want to Do The Idea Comes In 2018 my daughter started Kindergarten at a nearby charter school. It was a great school that taught Spanish, offered a great social experience for her, and I was able to go and help in…
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How to fall in love with your husband over and over again to keep a happy, healthy marriage
My Story Curtis is my best friend. He is everything, my forever, the person I said yes to for eternity. Because he’s the person I’m constantly with throughout my life, I see his strengths, but I see his weaknesses too. There have been times in our relationship where I have seen nothing but his faults.…
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How to Establish and Succeed with Your New Years Goals
2 Steps to Help You Reach the Goals You Long to Achieve 2022 starts in 4 days and with a new year comes New Year’s Goals! I’m sitting here writing to you and I know the cycle you’ve been through with your goals because I live it too. Christmas is over, I’m thinking about the…
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Never Give Up
Six months. That’s how long it’s been since I last published anything on here. And I really didn’t want to get on tonight to do it. So why am I? Because it’s my “thing”. My thing I feel drawn to do. I love to learn new ideas and feel the truth of it resonate deep…