Waiting-in-Line Meditation: How to Chill Out in 10 Items or Less

A few days ago, Chris and I were cruising around the salad bar/hot food bar at Whole Foods. When we’re feeling especially lazy, it’s nice to grab a quick dinner there. If I had my way, I’d just pull a chair up to the salad bar and start shoveling stuff into my mouth. Gosh, everything…

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There’s Always Time for Personal Time

Today I’m linking up with my friend Andrea at DreAm heART sMart ArT for her blog challenge. The prompt is “deliberate.” I want to share a topic that’s very personal to me—it’s personal time! Har har har! What? That was funny. Fine…moving on. Being a productive, successful person isn’t all about rushing from one task…

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Link Roundup: February 16, 2013

It’s my birthday! I’m 32 today, and you know I’m taking the day off. Thank you so much to those of you who sent me birthday cards. Was it because of my recent post about how much I love handwritten notes? My friend Sarah from This Is What I Eat sent me an awesome package.…

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Why I Love to Write by Hand

When I was in 5th grade, I won my class’s handwriting contest. I realize that this might seem like a quaint idea by today’s standards. Do children even practice their handwriting anymore? Anyhoo, I was thrilled that my classmates had voted that I had the clearest, neatest handwriting. I think I won some candy or…

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The Dangers of the “I Deserve It” Mentality

When it comes to health and fitness, it’s easy to come up with goals…and maybe it’s just as easy to find ways to sabotage ourselves. Today, I’m talking about the dangers of the “I Deserve It” mentality. Watch this short video to learn 3 truths that will help you let go of entitlement and finally…

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Allowing White Space Into Your Life

Today I’m linking up with my friend Andrea at DreAm heART sMart ArT for her blog challenge. The prompt is “allowing.” There’s this concept in publishing called “white space” that literally means leaving blocks of empty white space on a printed page. If you fill up every available inch of space in a magazine or…

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Link Roundup: February 9, 2013

So…I spent many hours this week mucking up my blog, and then many more hours un-mucking it up. And then my head exploded. How was your week? I switched from a third-party shopping cart program to a new shopping cart plugin that turned my website into a secured site (https). I was able to process…

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