Personal Development

Review and Giveaway: Total Transformation

4.2.11

The Total Transformation program, created by behavioral therapist James Lehman, teaches you simple techniques you can use to help your child solve his or her problems without resorting to disrespectful, abusive behavior.

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What Are You Shipping?

1.2.11

What happens when I declare to my family, friends and anyone who reads my blog that 2011 is my drop-dead year for making the changes I’ve been talking about for 10 years? It could be a wonderful success. It could be an embarrassing, depressing failure.

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Oh Yeah, That Reverb Thing

12.21.10

Imagine yourself five years from now. What advice would you give your current self for the year ahead?

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11 Things In 2011

12.13.10

What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life?

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Wisdom

12.10.10

I spent a lot of time this year planning for change. Change can’t always be made cold turkey. (Another wise decision I’ve adopted.) Changes need to be held in your pocket, turned over and over, looked at in every which way, and set upon various shelves of your life to see where they fit best.

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Beauty and The Beast Within

12.9.10

What’s different about you makes you beautiful? I’m different because I’m intense, moody and a perfectionist … Not how many would describe beauty. Which kinda makes me sad. Who says beauty has to burst out of a person in laughter, sparkles and rainbows?

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Community 2010: Online, IRL

12.7.10

I’d say I broke even in the community department for 2010. I built my personal, in-real-life community. I’ve made new friends, deepened friendships, and reached out to friends from my past. But my online community is sorely lacking.

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Today

12.6.10

Living with a “should have” mentality makes you a prisoner of the past. Life is much more enjoyable and productive when you move forward. Act, don’t react. Do what you can now and let go of what you should have done yesterday.

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On Writing, Distractions, and Motivation

12.3.10

So what can I eliminate each day that doesn’t contribute to my writing? Without a doubt, the answer is Gmail. I live in that damn Gmail — my calendar, my documents, my feed reader, all there to provide constant distraction. (See? I just clicked to the Gmail tab because my fingers stopped typing for a minute!)

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One Word

12.1.10

So I’ve decided to participate in this Reverb 10 thingy to “reflect on my year and manifest what’s next.” Because I’m feeling pretty on top of my game lately, because 2010 was a good year, because I’m hoping it will force me to write daily, and because I dig this sort of thing.

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Your Special Purpose

10.19.10

While the minutiae of everyday life is necessary, I also want to have enthusiasm, growth and drive in my life. I want my kids to see me learning every day and striving to be my personal best. What is wrong with working hard to be “present” in your life and looking for something that motivates and inspires you to make your life (and potentially other lives) better?

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Stagvation

10.2.10

Some people thrive on having more to do. I get more done in fewer hours when my to-do list is huge. I’m more efficient when I’ve got a time constraint. But when it comes to long-term goals that don’t necessarily have deadlines (other than self-imposed deadlines that I can justify tweaking), inertia kicks in.

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Don’t Always Take The Easy Way Out

8.20.10

I’ll never be a hard-ass parent. I’ll never be the type to get up every day at the same time and follow the same routine. I don’t want to be that person. I do want to get better at seeing things through and providing an example for my kids.

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Tracking Your Daily Habits

6.18.10

As bad as I am at keeping to a schedule, I am inexplicably drawn to creating them. I love calendars and check-lists and all forms of organizers. One type of schedule that has really helped me lately is my Daily Habits List, which you can download free right here.

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Stepping Back

6.5.10

My number one goal right now is to be a better role model for my kids. Part of that means being a better me, and part of it means letting go of some things that simply didn’t add much to any of our lives. So the blogging mojo? I actually feel it coming back now that I’ve let go of the pressure on myself. For the time being, I think I just might have found the elusive balance.

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Melancholy

4.30.10

I recently took an online personality/temperament test after talking with a friend about a more advanced (and IRL) version of the test that she had taken which helped her to better understand and relate to her family members. I’m a big fan of self-analysis, so I Googled and found this test.

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Growing As a Parent: Revisit the Past

4.3.10

Last week, I went through my old blog, PHAT Mommy, and pulled out the posts I wanted to import into this blog. I wanted to choose the most important posts that told the story of my life over my past 5 years of blogging. What I thought would be blog maintenance “busy work” turned out to be a very enlightening experience.

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