Empowerment: Start a Running Club and Change LivesStep outside your door or pick a trail, any trail, and lace up your sneakers. Take a run! Your chemical composition changes and your endorphins increase creating feelings of happiness! Running is one thing that can produce a natural, instantaneous high. Running makes you feel strong, light, and empowered. So…
Life Lessons: How To Honor and Give Back to OthersWhat is honor? Honor, by definition, is derived from the concept of weights and balances. Imagine an old time metal or aluminum scale, with identical small trays on each side to weigh coffee beans or spices. These scales are common in outdoor markets in foreign lands. When one thing is…
Remembering 9/11I still remember @TroyPattee waking me up 10 years ago, encouraging me to get out of bed, and to come downstairs to watch the news. Reports of the World Trade Center being hit were blaring from the TV as I wiped the sleep out of my eyes.
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Chase, almost 11
Gratitude: How To Give Back to Others and Celebrate Success…Part of creating your legacy is setting goals and achieving them. But sometimes we forget to celebrate the win! This year, give back to others through the gift of encouragement, positive words, and celebrating their successes.
In my own family we begin the year with a vision board goal setting
Happiness: Giving Back and Helping Those in NeedFeeling like it’s time for a mommy makeover? Summer can be a fun, but challenging season for moms. The sun, the chlorine, the daily activities and stresses that you might not feel during the school year can all add up. One mom recently said she had packed on six extra…
Homelessness: Getting Plugged Into Family, Friends, and Society…I sat in the dirt at a homeless city under a bridge with a beautiful blonde six year-old as she laughed and played mommy to a doll in her stroller. This scene was similar to the way children who live on the dump in Africa play, oblivious to the cares
Dreams: 3 Ways to Reinvent Yourself…Right now we’re dead center in the heart of summer, but fall is right around the corner, and so is a season of renewal. In 4-5 weeks, depending on where you live, the kids go back to school. Then it’s time for pumpkins, boots, and celebrations.
What things will you
Life Lessons: Be Still and Vow to See Everything in a Positive Light…I have a confession. I sometimes wake up at 2:00 a.m. with a jolt, thinking about the things I didn’t do right. “I haven’t read to the kids this summer.” popped up into my groggy brain at 2:00 a.m. this morning.
Invariably, the next toxic thought bomb followed. “Oh no,
Empowerment: 3 Ways to Embrace Your Imperfections…During the summer I find myself checking the mirror for imperfections on a daily basis. Taking the kids to the pool. Wearing a bikini (gasp). Why is it I see only the flaws?
Nothing is perfect. But what if I embraced imperfection instead of obsessing over it? This same principle
Adversity: Learning Legacy from Others…My friend Nick has taught me that the best lessons in life are learned from people. When my son Luke had his 6th birthday party recently, Nick climbed in and played with him in the bounce house. The kids jumped for hours, had cake and hot dogs, and Nick Vujicic,
Find a geocache with your kids.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
