Happy Motivation Monday! Last week we celebrated ourselves, and this week's theme is related, but not the same. When I talked about celebrating ourselves, it was about looking at things we have already accomplished and pausing to recognize the wonderful things that...
If you've seen my recap of the Woodlands Marathon from yesterday's post, you'll know that I'm focusing on celebrating the big accomplishment of finishing a marathon, rather than focusing on the "failure" of not meeting my goal. So today, for Motivation Monday, I want...
After such a long post yesterday, recapping my trip to Brazil, I'll let you off easy today with as few words as possible! For Motivation Monday today, I want to ask you to think of one way that you can help bring others around you up. Our busy world can be so...
It's Motivation Monday! If all goes according to plan, I should be landing from Brazil a few hours after this is posted. If you have actually received 4 posts from me in the time I've been gone, I probably deserve some kind of medal. This technology-fearing blog...
I started getting interested in the power of gratitude a year or two ago. I kept hearing podcasts about the dramatic positive impact a daily practice of gratitude can have on your health, and was immediately intrigued. I found studies to show that gratitude reduces...
My mom sent me a quote on Saturday, and from the moment I read it, I knew I wanted to make it the topic for today's Motivation Monday. We all go through periods of self-doubt and wondering whether we are good enough (or smart enough, pretty enough, thin enough ......
There's a reason that "silly" is in the title ... because I feel somewhat silly telling you this story. But if you get past the particular example that I'm about to give you, I believe there's a powerful Motivation Monday message here, and I hope you find a way to...
Happy Monday! Do you get today off to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? Kevin has to work today, so I'm considering it a "work day" as well. Regardless of your work situation, I hope you take time to reflect on what an amazing leader MLK Jr. was and what...
We're almost halfway through January, and by now, you may have gone from feeling inspired by all of the New Year's Resolution posts to feeling frustrated that you'll "never" get to where you want to be or that you'll "never" compare to all of those "inspirational"...
Each graduating senior in my high school got to paint a shoebox-sized portion of "The Senior Wall," a huge hallway in the middle of the school. Some people painted inside jokes, some people wrote their names and the names of their friends, some of the...