Goals

How to Start Outwitting Life Today

Do you know how to start outwitting life today? You don’t even need a life-changing event for permission. It’s time to stop and smell the flowers. My breast cancer diagnosis forced me to learn how to start outwitting life. The disease and its far-reaching tentacles were responsible for my job loss and ultimate home and lifestyle downsizing. The American Cancer Society estimates that 276…

New Year Musings

It’s mid-January and my house feels naked. Gone are all the wonderful, glittery, Christmas decorations that made our home feel cozy. The house no longer smells like pine. Our cookie tins are empty and already packed away. I think I am suffering from Christmas withdrawals. Is that a thing? I feel sad. My son and I respectively returned to school and work last week. My husband resumed…

Realistic Goal Setting for the New Year

It’s that time of year that we are inundated with gym membership commercials, miracle pills that melt fat away and financial gurus promising to get us out of debt. Advertisers are playing on our emotions and banking on us wanting to begin 2020 with new goals/resolutions. Most people that make new year’s resolutions target exercise, losing weight and handling money better as their main goals…