I couldn’t help but overhear as my friend edited the video they had just recorded for their business. I laughed out loud as I heard them redoing their introduction on the recording for the fourth time. What I didn’t know was that my laugh had trigger...
If your email inbox is like mine, it’s stuffed with great advice about New Year’s resolutions. So I want to take a different approach. Instead of a resolution, I want to set an area of focus for this year. I want to spend more time following my enthu...
You may not have noticed, but I didn’t send out a weekly tip on December 19th. Here in Wisconsin, we had a thick layer of heavy snowfall a few days before. The landscape was beautiful with the trees covered in white frosting! But it wasn’t so nice to...
Are you more like Chris or Terry? Chris likes to stay up on the latest news, so they watch it on TV first thing in the morning and have the national and local news on during dinner. They also have an app on their phone that notifies them of the lates...
Think of a time when you felt good, happy, content, or enthusiastic. How did feeling this way impact your attitude, your interactions with others, and your mood? Compare that to a time you felt discouraged, frustrated, sad, or angry. How did that fee...
I used to have a nightly habit of reflecting on things in my life I was grateful for before falling asleep. I’ve realized that somehow I’ve let that practice slip. How about you? Do you have a regular time or situation you choose gratitude? Or do you...
Do you ever get mad at yourself for making a mistake? Here’s a mistake that I’m reminded of every time I look at my Sienna minivan… A few years so, I was backing out of a parking spot in an indoor ramp when I heard my husband yell something from the...
The importance of this topic keeps showing up for me so I take that as a sign that I should reshare this post from a couple of years ago. Enjoy! ———– Life is richer when we have interesting things to think about, talk about, and do. These are topics...
My daughter was upset. A friend had said she was too busy with homework to get together, but then she posted a picture of her shopping with other friends. Why didn’t she just tell her the truth? My daughter wanted to write a text to send to her frien...
We’d been planning this camping trip for a year, and I couldn’t wait to spend some quality time with my dear friend, Cheri Neal! I was bringing our popup camper so we could camp in style and hopefully stay a little warmer than a tent. We had spent Fr...