self-improvement

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?

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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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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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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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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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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Mom-Improvement Monday

3.29.10

Welcome to “Mom-Improvement Monday.” Each week I’ll be highlighting my favorite blog posts that inspire us to be the parents we want our kids to become.

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Achieve Anything In Just One Year

3.19.10

I’m reading a great book (in between my ferocious consumption of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire) called Achieve Anything In Just One Year. It calls itself, “The last self-improvement book you’ll ever need!”

And it just might be.

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Oops, I Did It Again

3.8.10

This is my new home. Join me. Because I love this place. Because blogging is powerful and inspiring and helps us connect and grow. And because I need you all — family, real-life friends, online friends — to support me, as I hope to support you, on the journey to “mom-improvement.”

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Four Reasons I Got Teary-Eyed at Blissdom

2.9.10

This past weekend I was in Nashville for the Blissdom blogging conference and my trip was full of emotional ups and downs. Here are four reasons why I got weepy at Blissdom.

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My #1 Parenting Tip: Shut Up!

1.16.10

Yelling has never gotten me anywhere in my parenting. Talking to my kids, reasoning (don’t you see that this behavior only gets you in trouble?), and negotiating has not solved one problem. Ever. What has gotten results?

Shutting the hell up.

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Zen In Ten

1.2.10

It’s all about focus for me this year. No more plowing along, deepening the rut I’ve been in. If there’s one thing this year has taught me, corny as it may sound, it’s that everything in your life can change in an instant. Make the most of now.

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