Posts by Karen
Choose Your Rainbow
Have you ever been told to “eat the rainbow”? Do you know what that means? Are you doing it? Eating the rainbow doesn’t mean that you should be eating multi-colored M&Ms or gummy bears or anything that is artificially colored to match the rainbow. It means that we should be eating fruits and vegetables in…
Read MoreStay Away From Those Reptiles
Do you feel like you are up to your eyeballs in alligators all the time? Do you constantly feel like you’re chasing a deadline? Are you financially strapped, always afraid that the next catastrophic event will put you onto the street? These feelings of constantly being under stress will have a negative impact on your…
Read MoreYou Don’t Have To Be Perfect…Just Start Somewhere
“Perfection is the enemy of progress” – Winston Churchill Perfection According to Merriam-Webster, perfection is freedom from fault or defect the quality or state of being saintly an exemplification of supreme excellence an unsurpassable degree of accuracy or excellence Can you claim that you can live up to any of these definitions? I know I…
Read MoreWhose Responsibility Is It?
Some of my favorite quotes came from Maya Angelou. She was wise and much of what she said really speaks to me. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou When I was trying to dream up some inspiration for today’s post, I thought…
Read MoreDon’t Let This Stop You
What am I doing here? Who am I to think I can tell anyone how to do anything? Have you ever had this conversation, or one like it, with yourself? This is known as Imposter Syndrome. Imposter Syndrome Imposter Syndrome is a term coined in the 1970s by two psychologists. They were looking for an…
Read MoreThis One Is So Easy Even My Husband Can Make It!
My husband and I have an understanding…I don’t have to cut the grass and he doesn’t have to do the cooking. It works for us. But once in awhile I come up with something that I might let him try to make. This is just such a recipe. Mind you, I said I MIGHT let…
Read MoreHow Can you Make It a Good Morning Every Day?
What do you do when you first wake up in the morning? Do you mindlessly get up, use the bathroom, make the coffee and turn on the news? Do you lie in bed until the very last minute after hitting the snooze button over and over, only to have to rush around to be out…
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