You will never be a perfect ally.You will never be a perfect partner.You will never be a perfect parent.You will never be a perfect friend, neighbor, or business owner. Neither will I. That doesn't mean you should stop everything because perfection isn't possible,...
I'm too busy.I don't have time.It's not the right time.Maybe tomorrow.Maybe next week.Maybe next month.The next time this happens. We all have our reasons for not acting now. "I'm too busy" is a huge one. It gives us a reason for...Putting off the book we want to...
What if you actually don't have to get your shit together first?What if the world needs you to get into action and show up exactly the way you are?What if it's what we've all been waiting for? If you'd like to have a powerful conversation about where you want to go...
It was a gut punch when I realized I'd been waiting for my life to start—like there was some magical green light when things suddenly would begin happening, and nothing mattered up to that. And the start line kept getting farther away instead of closer. When I'm in my...
I don't know about you, but I was a dreamer when I was a kid. I had big dreams and big plans because that was the only kind I knew how to have. I lived huge because no one had told me yet I was supposed to be small. But then someone told me dreams were for other...
What if you're not doing it wrong? What if you're doing it right and it's just hard? What if how you're feeling is perfectly normal? What if the reason you can't get through the to-do list isn't that there's something wrong with you—but that the list is just too damn...
One of my intentions in 2020 is to spend more time reading books and less time scrolling social media. I'm more relaxed, I'm sleeping better, and I'm a hell of a lot more interesting to have conversations with these days. The people at the library are starting to...
Last week Emmett busted his head open in some mysterious incident that occurred in the dark in the boys' room after bedtime while he was inexplicably on Miles' bed but they "weren't playing," "weren't fighting," and "weren't messing around." They were able to glue it...
Despite the fact that writing is who I am and as important to me as breathing, I’ve let it slide since the kids came along, and I’ve used them as an excuse. I was wrong.
Are we too busy to improve? That's the subject line of an email I got at work today. It had nothing to do with parenting, but everything to do with everything if you ask me. The focus was on continuously improving business operations amid keeping the lights on and how...
