Change One Thing

Read time:  Approximately 3 minutes New Years has come and gone and quite likely, many New Year’s Resolutions. If you are one of the lucky few still holding strong to your resolutions, I applaud you. If you have already given…

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Managing Family Holiday Expectations

Reading time:  approximately 3 minutes  Is managing family holiday expectations filling you with dread?   Let’s face it.  2020 has been a mean, hard year.  And it has the potential to get even uglier as the holidays approach. Unfortunately, it’s…

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Moving Beyond Good Intentions

Read time:  approximately 2 minutes Quick!  When was the last time you said to a friend, “we need to get together”?   Now, when was the last time that you actually planned a date and time and made that get…

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Do the Next Thing

Read time:  approximately 2 minutes Do you ever feel like you are doing as much as you can, as fast as you can, but you just aren’t able to get everything done?    Our family has been experiencing a series…

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Something is Better than Nothing

Reading time:  approximately 3 minutes Have you ever planned to give the perfect birthday gift, complete with the perfect card only to have the special day come and go and in reality, you did …..nothing?   Just recently, I did…

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GET TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE!

Reading time:  Approximately 3 minutes Do you ever feel “stuck” and you just aren’t sure how to get from where you are to where you want to be?   A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to spend a…

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Can You Learn to be Content?

Reading time:  Approximately 4 minutes Can you learn to be content? Do you ever look around at others and feel as though your perfect life is somehow just out of your grasp?  You’re sure if you have this certain thing,…

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How to Cope with Change

When life throws you a curveball, how good are you at coping with the resulting changes?    Brian often remarks that our family doesn’t do change.  The truth is, not many of us love change, especially when the change is…

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In Place of Panic

In Place of Panic (during this unprecedented pandemic) Reading time:  approximately 4 minutes This unprecedented time in which we are currently living has the ability to produce mind numbing-panic.    It is easy to swing from calm to chaos and…

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