I can’t believe I’m saying this already, but the holiday season is quickly approaching! Christmas lights are going up, Friendsgiving plans are being made, and I am craving my Grammy’s Thanksgiving stuffing and gravy like nobody’s business. But for many of us, the “most wonderful time of the year” can also be the hardest. My …
Decluttering isn’t just for “spring cleaning,” and it isn’t just for people with too much stuff. Everyone can benefit from periodic decluttering. In this post, I am going to share my best tips for decluttering your whole house without getting overwhelmed or creating a bigger mess. A Beginner’s Guide to Decluttering Why declutter regularly? There …
Feeling stuck is something everyone experiences periodically throughout life. Often it can leave us feeling helpless or lost, but the truth is that there are a lot of things we can do to help ourselves get “unstuck” and back to living lives we truly enjoy. In this post, I am going to share the 8 …
Healthy meal planning on a budget is easier than it seems. With a little bit of thought and careful planning, you can dramatically improve your physical and financial health. I have been working on both a lot recently and have already been surprised by some of the results. In this post, I am going to …
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Problems. We all have them in some form or another. In this post, I am going to share with you the lesson I learned from Mark Manson’s bestselling book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, about how to use the problems we face to live …
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The quality of your college experience is determined by lots of different factors. As I see new and returning college students beginning to head off to campuses for the upcoming academic year, I am reflecting a lot on my own college experience. If you read my post on the things I would do differently if …
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Have you ever failed to keep a new year’s resolution and then felt guilty about it afterward? If you are like most people, your answer to that question is a resounding yes. In this post, I am going to share with you a midyear check-in I created and am using to remind myself of the …
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I’ll be honest, after my freshman year – which was awesome – I didn’t love my college experience. I didn’t hate it, but there are definitely a lot of things I wish I could change about that time. While I can’t go back and change the past, I can take what I’ve learned from the …
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As a still-pretty-new teacher myself, one question I get asked often by substitutes who are getting their degrees in education is: “what is your best advice for me as a new teacher?” In this post, I am going to share with you the 5 things that I say every time I am asked this question. …
I think that there are things in life we can be certain about. They might not be big things, like what tomorrow will look like, but they are things we can can hold onto in those times when nothing else seems to make sense. These are my certainties.
