Motivation & Goals
Nothing worth doing is easy. The road to your goal may be windy, bumpy, and have rollercoaster-style dips in it, but it is worth traveling. Where do you want to go? Let’s get there together.
Selflessness
We need YOU out here. You. With all the good and bad and helpful and not helpful that comes with you. We need your gifts. We need your humor. We need your talent. We need your listening ears. We need YOU. So take care of you, ok? Being [...]
Voice of a Villager – Robin Arzón
Life takes a village. Welcome to mine, Robin Arzón. You do not know me, but you have helped me to "protect my peace" for the past 25 days. Your encouragement and empowering words have helped me push myself. I am honored to consider you part of my Village. To [...]
Returning to the Village
Here We Go Again... Just over 13 years ago, I started this blog. At the time, I thought it was going to be an online journal. I would share my journey as a mother, a military spouse, and a creator of organized chaos with creative [...]
Finding Balance
I started a tradition last year on New Year's. Each year, I choose a word, or phrase, to become that year's theme. Last year it was "simple values". I spent the year pursuing a life with less clutter, both mentally and physically. More on that in a post to [...]
passionate worklife
Dear Kids,I hope that when it comes time for you to choose your path in the working world, you choose something that you are passionate about doing. You will spend most of your adult life in the workplace. Please choose that place to be one of passion and [...]
Start Monkeying Around
True friends are your chosen family. If you let them, they will save you from yourself. They will help you to remember who you are when you lose direction, because they know you, sometimes better than yourself. They will show you the best and worst of yourself. Draw from [...]
Criticized for it Anyway
One of the growing trends that I see on lots of blogs that I love right now is conversation about feeling external pressure to be something other than what they feel they are intrinsically. They feel like everyone else has it together, and that they are somehow messing up. [...]
Moms are Superheroes
Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Captain America, Dora, Barbie, Little Einsteins, Scooby Doo... You name the problem, and there is a super hero out there to solve it. I don't know where these people dream up their fictional characters, but they are pretty fantastic. Kids love them, and need [...]
New Year • New Plan
New Year's Resolutions. Goal setting. Annual themes and projects. Whichever perspective you choose, this time of year is a time of reflection, reevaluation, and renewal. Personally, I am glad 2011 is over. Many of my friends seem to mirror my view, based upon their Facebook status reports and the [...]
Be Yourself • Projects for Progress
Click picture for source. I found this on Pinterest the other day, pinned by my friend Shawna. I love it. I love that it's colorful, I love the way that it is drawn, and I love the message it sends. Altogether too often, I find myself playing the [...]
Give Thanks
Thank you. It's such a simple thing to say, but so often we all forget it. It takes two seconds, but can make someone else's entire day. We all love to hear it when someone says it to us, so why are we so reluctant to pay it forward? [...]
Workout Motivation
I haven't worked out alone, let alone with a trainer in almost a month for a variety of reasons (including meningitis and a stay in the hospital). Mentally, physically, and emotionally, I need to return to exercise. I have scheduled three training sessions (30 min/per), and plan on hitting [...]
Mama Can’t Get Sick • Friends Save The Day
It should be a rule that mothers can never get sick. Regardless of if you are a SAHM, solo Mom, single Mom, working mom, or none of those - Sick is bad. Recently, I survived a three week run with viral meningitis. It involved two nights in the hospital [...]
Super Mommy!!!
Hi. I'm just about every mom out there. I think it is my responsibility to do everything. Not only do it, but do it right, the first time we try, without asking questions. I think my kids should behave well in public on most occasions. I should be crafty. [...]
Fat Crying
I don't know about you, but I hate sweating. I hate it. Stinking, wet, sticky... Yuck. Or at least I used to think so. I found this quote on Pinterest and reposted it in my Workout and Body Image file, but it had a curse word in its commentary, so [...]
Self CARE is not SelfISH
For a long time, I had it wrong. I thought I was selfish to want to spend money on myself, take time for myself, or basically do anything for ME. I thought that was selfish. I thought it meant I was putting myself before the other people in my [...]
no matter how slow you go
I found this poster on Pinterest, and I thought of it today while I was in a spinning class. Yep, I, the non-athlete of the millennium, was convinced by my super-fit friend Rachel, to attend a spinning class. I never thought that I would love it. She'd warned me that the [...]