I woke up this morning to the boys and their friends yelling at each other. All over an X-Box game. Asking them (I might have raised my voice a bit) to bring down the controllers and their phones, one can imagine the disrespect that followed. The shortness, the impatience, the crankiness, the irritability in their tone of voice sent me… Read More
Do you ever just feel like you’ve got too much on your plate…you’re stuck working on a never-ending to-do list…and you’re being pulled in a million directions…without having a single ounce of sanity? Oh, how I get it, and I am here to tell you…Stop trying to do it all! There were days when I could not even count how… Read More
Goals are a challenge, especially when everybody else’s lives get in the way of yours. You have these hopes to get fit or to eat healthily or to try something new. Then those goals get knocked down by everything else. Work, kids, family, and other life stuff can take over–realizing that you’re not even on your own priority list! Now,… Read More
There’s not a single person on this Earth who hasn’t compared and looked at someone else and thought, “man, I would be so much happier if I had that.” We often confuse our own self-worth and happiness with the things other people have. It may be a car, a slimmer body, or photos of extravagant vacations every week. And it… Read More
I know how busy and hectic every day is – juggling a career, relationships, being a parent, household tasks, errands, appointments – the list is NEVER ENDING. In trying to keep your head above water, you’re putting your own needs on the back burner. Motivation to bust out a workout let alone to do anything else is non-existent. I understand… Read More
I had a wake up call from my teenage son when he said something so simple, yet so wise — as an entrepreneur at heart, a business owner since the age of 2, a work ethic so strong, and goals a mile long — he said, I would be happy continuing to run and build my landscape company. Happy. Did… Read More