As we approach the middle of the year, I look back and see the journal prompts have taken us in various directions. This week as I work on creating a workbook for my “Defeating the Lies of Negative Self-Talk” I am journaling the prompt asking me to face a lie I tell myself and replace…
I describe myself as a Recovering Perfectionist with a Type A personality and OCD tendancies. I struggle with finding ‘good enough’. When will I be good enough? Is it possible to be good enough. What if someone doesn’t think I am good enough? These questions haunt me, and as I have spoken with other women,…
We go through struggles and often get caught up in the chaos of life around us. It is sometimes possible to get caught up in this that we forget to celebrate the successes. Okay, let me reword that. Sometimes I get so caught up in the drama and chaos around me I forget there are…
It’s never too late to start journal writing. Pick up a cheap spiral notebook or find a special bound one, it doesn’t matter. Join in! If you enjoy reading, or watching movies, what character do you admire the most? What do you admire about them? This week, consider if you could be that fictional character,…
I am in a couple of Toastmasters clubs. In one club there is a member who is blind. I am awe-struck whenever I see her. This woman sees through hearing, and she ‘sees’ a lot. She picks up on things people do simply by listening and notices things those of us who are watching don’t…
My ‘verse of the year’ is Psalm 119:1. It reads “You are blessed when you stay on course, walking steadily on the road revealed by God.” I can walk that road, but I get flustered when I find a road block on it. OK God, now what? Do I find a detour? Should I turn…
As we get older it is easy to look back and say ‘I should already know this’ or ‘I should have already done that’ or any other phrase discounting our personal successes. It is important to remember, each step we take, each season of life, every day and every year is a lesson. We need…
I was watching some little girls getting ready to play house. One little girl caught my attention. She was assigning roles to each player, setting the scene of what they would be doing, and even telling everyone what they would say and do. She had their play time all scripted out. Watching this, I had…
This phrase has become a favorite of mine; spoken by the lovable character, Yoda of Star Wars. When I hear someone say “I will try” I now hear “it’s not that important, I will play at it”. Either you will do it or you will not. Trying is not a commitment. Doing is a commitment.…