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 …
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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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 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.
Then this summer came and I finally had the time I really needed to sit down and figure out what I needed to do to change the things I needed to change in my life. An important part of that reflection was looking at what was really behind so much of what I was feeling and experiencing. One of those root causes was my love-hate relationship with time.
My plan was to give up social media completely for an entire 7 days, with the hopes that maybe it would let me recollect a bit before returning to it. I turned off all of my notifications and moved all social media apps to another page on my phone to avoid temptation. Then I let the detox begin!
My students will most likely never see this. They won’t get to hear from this side of Miss C. the way I wish they could. But maybe, just maybe, someone else will.
Disappointment is part of life, but it doesn’t have to define it. Even when we think that nothing will ever get better, or that we have lost our one and only chance at something, we can turn things around.
