Have you ever asked your spouse to do something – and then spent the next decade of your life waiting for it to actually happen? From relationship goals, to the honey-do list, life coach Connie Sokol shares a patient approach to working with your significant others timeline. Knowing a few coping skills in marriage—including the …
“You will not be committed to your goals one hundred percent if you are not clear on the benefits you will gain by reaching them. When you are not sure of the benefits it’s very difficult to maintain the necessary persistence, dedication and enthusiasm! So, you always have to ask yourself why you want to …
If the idea of “change” feel big, overwhelming and impossible – take a deep breath, and dive into one of these three quick do-today tasks, that will put you on the road to improvement. Sometimes we feel the New Year perfection paralysis of, “I should be on the ball with x, y or z.” And …
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Happy Monday–Life Boards Help Create Change! I just had to share that I LOVED making my new 2012 Life Board yesterday and am doing the same with my family tonight for family night. A helpful tip: when doing them with children, use the precut placemat size cardstock to have them put pictures of their goals …
Women are busy. Women are stressed. Women are stretched. So when was the last time you stopped to really appreciate the role of being a woman? Life Coach and Author Connie Sokol shares how to balance womanhood with motherhood. Every day we mothers run to and fro but without thinking do we really need to? …
Are you enjoying your Holy Habits goal? I’m loving a more peaceful focus. Ken Burgess shares this great thing about goals: “You will not be committed to your goals one hundred percent if you are not clear on the benefits you will gain by reaching them. When you are not sure of the benefits it’s …
Pregnancy is a wonderful thing. Mainly, because I can’t move fast. Therefore, whether I like it or not, I’ve slowed down for the season, and do you know, it’s been one of the best seasons yet. Indulge me to share three functional but fun ideas for hopefully making it a more peaceful one for you, …
My son had a choir concert last night. If you can imagine, I cried through most of it (of course you can imagine, I’m almost five months pregnant). But it wasn’t because of the music, solely—it was because of the Backgrounders. From start to finish I was impressed with the dedication and love of these …
If the holidays bring too much stress and not enough joy, maybe it’s time to try a simpler approach. Here are three simple tips to create a meaningful, memorable holiday season. Remember what you received last year from Uncle Bob or Aunt Lulu? Or gave them? Maybe not. And that’s good news, because this year …
Once again I found myself teaching my lovely daughter—this time on fabulous scrapbooking overnighter at a lovely hotel—about what real women are and aren’t. This teaching moment came from: commercials. As we scrapped away to the Harry Potter weekend marathon on TV, I began to notice, and to verbalize, just what these commercials said we …
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