Summer Vacation – Let’s Go Camping!
One of my friends once said, "My idea of camping is the balcony overlooking palm tress at a five-star resort!" Okayyyyy... not exactly my first thought when someone mentions camping to me! I love camping - everything from the smell of damp pine needles to birds...
Christmas in July – It’s Not What You Think (Exactly)
Okay, before you start throwing sand-covered snowballs at me... This post is about FINANCES! Remember last week we talked about procrastination? Well, I am challenging you to start planning and saving today towards your holiday spending. I'm not asking you to start...
Procrastination BREAKTHROUGH!
Are you ready to begin fresh and break those chains of procrastination? Let’s do a quick review from the earlier posts this week. 1) Procrastination touches most of our lives. However, putting something off on occasion is not the same as a chronic procrastinator. 2)...
Procrastination – The Pain/Pleasure Principle
What carries more motivational weight for you, pain or pleasure? Years ago, I attend a Tony Robbins training weekend, and one of the things he taught was that the two main driving factors for everyone are either pain or pleasure. You are either moving away from the...
Procrastination: Unraveling the How and Why
No, this is NOT a tutorial on how to procrastinate! But keep reading... Yesterday we looked at the entire overall premise of procrastination, and today I’d like to touch on the why and how of it. Why do we do this to ourselves? There are a plethora of reasons, but...
Procrastination… We All Do It But Nobody Wants to Admit It
Yeah... the word alone puts a knot in your stomach, does it? Procrastination – the act of delaying or postponing; to put off intentionally and habitually; a postponement, "often with the sense of deferring though indecision, when early action would have been...
Summer Skin Safety – Sunscreen
Summer Skin Safety - GOTTA HAVE IT! As the temperatures climb into the 90’s this week here in New Jersey, thoughts are of cooling down by going “down the shore” ( what we Jerseyans like to call a visit to the beach), or finding the closest pool. We are all about fun...
10 Days of Reading – Day 10 Final!
As we come to the close of our 10 Days of Summer Reading Book Recommendations... I hope you have found a few books worthy of your beach bag or backpack or e-reader or audiobook! Amazing the many ways we can consume literature these days, isn't it? This last book...
10 Days of Summer Reading – Day 9
This book refreshes like a clear-running stream through a mossy green forest. I couldn't put One Thousand Gifts down - I think I actually fell asleep one night in a chair just because I couldn't stop drinking in the beauty of her words on every page. The sub-title is...
10 Days of Summer Reading – Day 8
EVERY summer reading list MUST have some fiction... ...a book that you sail away into, that captures you and takes you to another place, another time, another world - the world of fantasy. That is exactly what you will find when you read C. S. Lewis' classic series,...
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