"Celebrate what you want to see more of." – Tom Peters
"Don't just count your years, make your years count." - George Meredith Happy Fourth of July! And happy birthday to me :). It's the big 2-9 this year- the last year of my 20s. Year 28 has been a great year. I went to Colorado, bought our first house, celebrated a few weddings, got a new [...]
Hey fellow goal junkies! Welcome back. The last few weeks I shared how I'm setting goals this year: one habit goal, one big goal, and one monthly goal. Here are some additional tips for accomplishing any type of goal! 1. Start January with just your Habit Goal. If these 3 goals are too overwhelming, just start [...]
Hey fellow goal junkies! Welcome back. As promised, I'm breaking down the three types of goals I'm focusing on this year. A few weeks ago I shared about habit goals, and last week I shared about big goals. This week, I'm sharing about monthly goals. Set One Monthly Goal. This is a smaller goal that can [...]
Hey fellow goal junkies! Welcome back. As promised, I'm breaking down the three types of goals I'm focusing on this year. A few weeks ago I shared about habit goals. This week, I'm sharing about BIG goals. This is something you work on for the WHOLE year. Examples: Examples: Train for and run a marathon. Plan [...]
Hey fellow goal junkies! Welcome back. As promised, I'm breaking down the three types of goals I'm focusing on this year. The first one is... The Habit Goal. This goal is a practice that you want to continue regularly and build into a habit. Examples: Daily Quiet Time/Bible Reading Work Out three times a week [...]
I'm a bit of a goals junkie. I love dreaming about the future, and goals and plans are the perfect tools to intersect the future with the present. Most of you (if you even bother with resolutions at all) have probably given up with your new year's goals, but even so, I wanted to share [...]
"Celebrate what you want to see more of." -Tom Peters As we embark on a new year, I wanted to take the time to look at the year past and record just one glimpse of joy, one awesome moment or memory from each month of 2016. Here's my list. January Fun winter date nights with Aaron [...]
"Essentially, what I'm talking about, what I'm circling ever nearer and nearer to is agency. Or maybe authority: owning one's life, for better and for worse, saying out loud, 'This is who I am, this is who I'm not, this is what I want, this is what I'm leaving behind.'" -Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect I [...]
Today (or rather, the day I wrote this :)) is the day after Labor Day. The official first day of fall in my book. It’s the day kids go back to school, and even those of us not on that calendar seem to fall back into more established and regimented routines after the relaxed summer [...]
It's the day before the beginning of a new year, so of course new year resolutions are on my brain! As I was thinking through my goals for this coming year, I started to dream- if I could do anything I wanted with my life, what would I do? My friend is doing the World [...]
GLIMPSES OF JOY 