It’s one thing to come up with a great plan to lead you to victory, but it’s another to work that plan and keep it a priority. Being accountable to another person or group of people is one way to increase your chances of success.
What are you giving? How do you present YOU to the world? What gifts and talents are pouring out of you regularly? Do you spend too much time wishing that you could do something different only to miss living the life you have?
Perspective; oh, so important, yet so hard to achieve! We can become so ego-centric, as we get busy with life, to-do-lists, and so forth. I am someone who can put herself in other people’s shoes. Most of the time.
One of the best things about having a women’s blog is that I get to meet some wonderful women along the way. Among those that I’ve had the opportunity to get to know better is Lather, Inc. owner, Emilie Davidson-Hoyt.
While watching the bank clerk counting the change (pennies included), I had a wave of gratefulness wash over me. Gratefulness for the patients who are helping me stay in practice. Gratefulness for patients like the one lady who only makes $15,000 a year, yet she wrote me a check for $200 because her insurance did not cover her visits to see me.
Since I started this blog back in March, I have learned how quickly that you can go from being scared of the Word Press Dashboard to whizzing around it like a Cirque Du Soliel aerialist. Another thing that magically happens is making new web friends – the topic of this Fortunate Friday (a new column for Fridays that talks about the fortunes of blogging).
By now you know Kellie Stone as the founder of Women’s Life Link, an amazing writer on all subjects pertaining to women’s health, wellness and beauty. I’ve known her as so much more. Way back in 1991, she walked into a Christian Book Store, which I owned and managed at the time, looking for a part time job. I hired her on the spot.
I know that I have done at least one post about the importance of protecting your skin from the sun’s damaging UV rays; however, I can’t resist doing another as I keep witnessing those around me get horrible burnt – one person in particular – my son. Though his fried shoulders were a result of a complete misunderstanding between the two of us; I still felt like the world’s worst mother for not making sure he was covered.
Do you remember what it was like to be 13, 16, or even 21? It’s easy to recall major life events of your adolescent years, but sharing an empathetic moment with your own teenage girl might be difficult as time erases our past emotions – no wonder we find raising teens challenging. The fact is, children, at any age, seem to think that we have been perpetually grown up and never dealt with peer pressure or the physical, emotional, and mental changes with which they are bombarded on a daily basis. The other problem is they are trying to become adults, and we are trying to prevent it from happening- at least for a while.
The proverbial box – how to fit into it; the mold of expectation – how to conform. Truthfully, we spend way too much time being concerned about these things when all they are doing is adding harm to our lives. We have all tried to fit something into a box that is too small or [...]
