I think this happens to most of us: we set New Year’s resolutions, or set a big new goal for ourselves. And then, things go awry. Maybe something happens in the world that upsets us for days, or something in our personal life throws us way off course. Maybe our plans don’t seem off to a great start. Numbers don’t budge,
Category: Semi-Charmed Life.
Mr. Donovan and I usually spend the holiday break in Phoenix, where his parents and many of his siblings live. This year, after Christmas, we headed up into the mountains of Flagstaff, AZ with a few of his siblings and their kids, so that the kids could go sledding. Unfortunately, northern Arizona didn’t get as much snow as predicted. We drove
Last week I found out that someone I’m connected to through the Internets had said some pretty negative things about me and my work. When I get negative feedback or treatment, the first thing I do is consider whether I brought it on myself in some way. Sometimes I have, which is no fun to face up to, but it’s better to be
I am definitely a “New year, new me!” kind of person. When the end of the year rolls around, I don’t just want resolutions…I want a New Year revolution. And since New Year’s is hands down my favorite holiday of the year, it was kind of inevitable that I would make a list of New Year goals! Now I know
Last summer I read How To Win Friends and Influence People, a classic by Dale Carnegie (which I talked about in my July Recommended Reads post.) A lot of the book talks about things that you know are true, but sort of forget to put into practice. (And by “you,” I mean me, of course.) HTWFAIP starts out in a
Recently, someone I don’t know well in one of my (many, I’m afraid) private online groups vented about the guy she was seeing: a not-quite-boyfriend. She was most often the one to make plans, and he cancelled at the last minute about a third of the time. She was asking the group how to get him to back out less often
Fall is the perfect season for reading… but then, I kind of think that with every new season. This month I read a few of the books everybody was reading, and then some. Take a look!