Handling The Hard Stuff

Tag: Future

  • Build Toward YOUR Future

    It’s the end of the school year where I am and I find myself looking around at the circumstances my friends and I find ourselves in. Some of us have kids graduating and are processing transitioning into the parents of adult children. Some of us have littles and are juggling trying to be present parents…

  • Wellness Check

    I stumbled across this poem by Andrea Gibson the other day and I couldn’t ignore it. “In any moment, on any given day, I can measure my welness by this question: Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?” This is so powerful to me because it is so…

  • Have the Hard Conversations

    Avoiding hard conversations in relationships just postpones difficulties. That anxiety and concern over the outcome of the conversations just festers and builds and ends up manifesting in more ways than you’d think. Studies have shown that avoiding difficult conversations forces us to focus on protection and survival instead of growth and adaptation. This ends up…

  • Women with Money Change the World

    There has been this big phenomenon in the last couple years that seems to be shocking most news organizations, but not shocking most feminists paying attention to financial matters. Women are a huge and underestimated market. Women treat money differently. Women spend it. Of course that’s a stereotype and maybe that’ll get condemnation, but women…

  • Progress is a Process

    I’ve seen a lot of incremental process in my life. I’ll lose a little weight or I’ll be consistent with a training plan or a savings goal and then I’ll lose focus. I pat myself on the back and congratulate myself on a job well done. And then I let my foot off the gas.…

  • Who Is in Your Circle

    I saw a quote yesterday that said, “If you look at who is in your circle and you’re not inspired, you don’t have a circle, you have a cage.” It struck me and I started thinking about my circle – that is spot on for me. Even back to my childhood friends. My very first…

  • Who You Are and Who You Are Not

    Know thyself. As we get older we learn who we are, but more importantly we know who we are not and do not want to be. We spend our lives learning and finding ourselves – new skills, new jobs, educations, partners. We learn who we are as parents and friends and who we are in…

  • Don’t Confuse Scary for Hard

    We often think something is too hard, requires too much effort, is insurmountable when really we just don’t know how to do it. We’re intimidated, not incapable. Scary is scary. I get it. I’ve talked myself out of a bunch of opportunities over the years because I was intimidated or just plain afraid. But that…

  • You Don’t Have to Have a Plan

    You don’t have to know everything right this minute. Sometimes life is overwhelming. There are too many places for you to focus and you’re stuck just trying to juggle everything coming at you and you can’t make progress or focus on any of them. That’s ok. We get so focused on having a direction and…

  • Honest Mistakes

    We screw up. Humans screw up. It happens and we all do it. How we respond to it, sets people apart. Certain people refuse to acknowledge their mistakes. They double down rather than admitting they were wrong. They reassert the shaky position rather than acknowledging they might have misunderstood or been incorrect. Invariably this position…