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The new year is always a bit of a struggle, but not in the way you’d expect. I love goals. The idea of checking lists and achieving things comes naturally to me. (That’s not to say it is easy, believe me!) It’s just the way my brain works.
The thing that’s not so easy for me? Grace. That’s what I need to be intentional about.
It’s hard to watch someone else get your dream, or even something close to it. We may smile on the outside, but inside, we can be struggling with doubt, insecurity, anger. Believe me, I know. There’s this writer who has been in the spotlight. There’s the book and the book club and the speaking. There’s
For a long time, I didn’t set goals. Even in a sea of bullet journals and planners and New Year’s Resolutions, I couldn’t find my way to concrete goals. It wasn’t because I didn’t know what I wanted, but because I was so afraid of putting them on paper and then failing. In many ways
Some people are surprised when I mention that I didn’t make any resolutions. A resolution is marked by decidedness, firmness, a hard-fast determination to do something. Life has enough hard edges for me. I’m going for soft. This New Year I am not looking at what I need to change. I will set a few
I’m not a fan of resolutions. It’s not that the concept isn’t good. I love the idea of setting new goals and checking things off a list to better oneself. The thing I’m not a fan of? Self sabotage. The Usual Routine It’s what always happens to me when I’ve tried to set a New
There’s something magical about seasons. Some of it has to do with the weather, but more of it has to do with my heart. Today, let’s join Emily Freeman and appreciate the things, both big and small, that I learned this fall. I thrive on deadlines I’ve always known this to be true, it’s part
I wanted Rachel Hollis to be my friend. Maybe that’s not exactly right. I wanted to be more like her. Everything about her seems, well, perfect. I thought I wanted that. As I read Hollis’ books I found myself wondering what was missing. The words were great, the motivation was great, but something about it
