Opinion

Making Small Health Changes: Sometimes You Have to Be Scared

Today I read a very disturbing fact in a book that has overwhelmed me with information lately. I was reading Jillian Michaels’, “Master Your Metabolism” which I bought thinking it would be a lightweight book that will help motivate me to shed a few pounds and hopefully learn how to keep it off. While it [...]

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Two kids are easier than one? Seriously?

In the past week, two separate people, who don’t even know each other have told me that, “Two kids are easier than just one”. Hmm…as the mom of “just one” I’m not terribly sure I believe that. Part of me thinks it’s a trick moms of “more than just one” play on we singleton moms [...]

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Confession: I’m a Mobile Organization Hypocrite

For someone who likes to be organized, efficient and “on the ball”….wow, I have a huge confession. It’s one that I hope won’t make you take me less seriously, since I always talk about how to save time, save money and do things easier. You’d think that would apply to all aspects of my life, [...]

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On an entirely different subject: Branding and Southwest Airlines

In another life, I was quite the marketing critic. As a teenager, even, I would mark up with a thick red pen the direct mail advertisements my family received in the mail and send them back to the advertiser with my notes and corrections. Yeah, I was THAT girl. Branding, especially, has always been a [...]

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Another Junk Study: Kids Wreck Your Marriage

Imagine my surprise when my news reader featured yet another junk study that took eight years (and goodness knows how much money) to come to the determination that, “Secret to marital bliss: Don’t have kids” Sigh….ok, let’s examine this more closely. The “study” concluded after eight years of study (I could have told them this [...]

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You Don’t Have to Spend it All

I’ve read numerous stories in the past weeks about people who were living the good life….fancy cars, expensive homes, and dream vacations…only to find themselves homeless, jobless and penniless as a result of this economy. How does that happen? How does someone go from a million-dollar home and a nice car to no home, divorce [...]

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The importance of “Monkey Work”

“Monkey Work” Def: Work that is easy to do, requires very little preparation to get started, is somewhat repetitive, and breaks up the day to get you motivated to do more challenging work later. I believe having a certain amount of available “monkey work” to do is vital for breaking a cycle of lack of [...]

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