I recently wrote about challenging yourself to try something new. While I am still working on my professional challenge of guest posting that I wrote about in that post, I am also starting a physical challenge this week to fight exercise boredom. I think everyone is pretty aware of the benefits of exercise. It’s […]

I read this article from Psychology Today that got me thinking about the fear of trying new things. I am trying something new this week and it scares me to death. I am a routine person. I do well with a routine. I forget and lose stuff less often if I follow a set pattern throughout the […]

If you’ve ever read my blog before, you know that I love keeping a journal. I recently read an article about the importance of setting goals. As I read, I kept thinking about how journaling is a great way to help you achieve your goals. I am a very goal driven person. For me, one […]

No one likes to lose and I am no different. I grew up playing sports, lots of them, like three sports in high school and one year of college volleyball. However, I’m not sure you would call my sports career successful in the traditional sense. In high school, the best team record we ever had […]

    If you had told me when I was 15-years-old that I would be a homemaker, I probably would have growled at you and told you that was not happening. Oh, how I laugh at my teenage self. As a teen, I thought a homemaker was a maid that didn’t get paid. I’m sure that’s […]

I’m a little clumsy. I admit it. I own it. I’ve sprained both ankles in the same week…actually, I’ve broken a finger on each hand in the same week, on different days. Before you think I’m a walking insurance claim, I did grow up playing a lot of sports and that is how most of […]

Each summer my brother and I rode a horse to show at the County Fair. One summer I got Jumper for my horse. His name wasn’t actually Jumper but that’s what I called him because he spooked easily and I fell off a lot. He learned that once I fell off he could run back […]