This one habit may also help improve your relationships and encourage more consistency with healthy nutrition and fitness. This magical habit: bookending your days. Intentionally mark the beginning and end of each day. This is something I could improve upon. In the morning, spend anywhere from 5 minutes...
Last week we were basking in 11° weather here in Indiana. This week we had a blizzard. If you’ve ever lived in a wintery weather place, you can visualize the scene: snow piling up non-stop all night into day; blowing so that you’re not sure...
It’s soup season here in the Midwest. The high today was something like 11°F. Brrrrr. Grateful that it was sunny. Since we’re probably going to have a few more days like this, I’ve decided to share a soup recipe with you. I am aware that this recipe...
Sometimes I start to lose it. My mind, that is. Eat this, don’t eat that, depending on the podcast of the day. (Or the food fad of the day.) And if I feel that way, I’m guessing that sometimes you feel that way too. Life is complicated...
A colleague of mine made a post-it note to remind her to ask this important question each day. I like it. "How great can today get?" So, what about you? How great can YOUR today get? It’s easy to allow complacency to set in. Making today great...
Made any? Have any? What’s the difference and why am I even writing about this? New Year’s resolutions are a thing. People make them. Most break them. Statistics show that after 6 months, only 46% of people are successful at keeping a resolution. By definition, a resolution is...
I heard a song today that had a line that went something like, “She’s wearing her mood ring and it’s never the same.” Remember the mood rings of the ‘70s? I had one and always wondered how they worked, and if they really reflected my mood. The...
Sometimes, yes. It is possible. Perhaps you hosted a festive holiday gathering and overbought or overbaked. Or your guests all had the same hostess gift idea. The cookie exchange was big fun, and now what do you do with all of them? Since eating too many cookies isn’t the...
‘Tis the season of amazing Christmas cookies and so much more. What’s your mindset these days? A. It’s the holidays so I’ll eat whatever I want and deal with it next year. B. It’s the holidays so I’ll eat whatever I want and spend more time exercising. C....
December. Holidays. Parties. Gifts. Puppies. The commercials and ads portray this as a wonderful, gleeful, joyous time of year. And it is, for a much different set of reasons than the marketing people make it out to be. At the same time, some real-life stuff brings sadness,...