Are You Acting or Reacting?

Acting or Reacting? What’s the Difference? Just for clarity’s sake, let’s define these two ideas: Reacting is simply that. You respond to whatever is happening around you without any forethought. Your phone beeps or vibrates; you have a new message, so you check it immediately. Acting is behaving in a manner that shows some thought […]

Like Herding Cats

Doesn’t that just describe much of our lives perfectly? Herding cats.   Lately that’s how my life has felt. Chaotic and out of control. Like I have too many things to do and don’t know where to begin. Overwhelmed? Oh yeah. So how do you get out of this mode? How do you create order […]

Do You Believe in the Hereafter?

Now before you scoot away, this is not a religious post.  It’s just my attempt to put a little interest and humor into my headline. I have a really hard time writing interesting headlines. So my dad had quite the sense of humor, but it was the dad kind. You know, not so funny. He […]

Feeling A Little Cloudy?

As ADDers, we have poor working memory. Fuzzy thinking – or in this case – cloudy thinking. We’re forgetful and we always have about a thousand things going on in our head at once. Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a sort of USB drive like you have for your computer so you […]

Random Thoughts

I know I have been MIA the last few days. Hopefully you were too busy making memories with your loved ones to notice. My days were spent cooking and cleaning, taking a trip to the Christmas tree farm (and 3 trips to the store for enough lights), and making cookies with this guy: That’s a […]

Making and Using a Timeline

A timeline might not sound like a very exciting thing, but trust me, you need this. It will make your life so much easier! I know you have probably seen timelines in places like museums or in books, often related to events in history. Sometimes you will see them in the newspaper when a big […]