"Am I an expert? I don't know!" Lately I've thought a great deal about impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome essentially means, despite external evidence of competence, one is still convinced she's a mess fraud. It means an individual falsely believes she doesn't deserve success and dismisses it as luck, serendipity etc. Many who experience this syndrome believe they are ... Continue Reading
Living without regret.
I have a friend. She and I live far apart but plan once a week Skype conversations. A plan which means, as I'm sure many of you can relate to, we actually Skype every few weeks and text furiously in between. friend and family. We've done this for a few years now. At first, given how we met, our conversations focused mainly on work. Finding work, pitching for work, marketing ... Continue Reading
Screw the elevator pitch.
Panel speaking at BlogathonATX. Recently I've done lots of speaking and presenting. I've chatted about topics ranging from rebranding to finding your (writing) voice. I've provided my perspective on the Power of the Pivot and had an opportunity to do a What You Can When You Can fitness demo on TV. Even with all this experience, I still have a moment of panic before each appearance ... Continue Reading
Double Digits and 31 Days of Kindness.
I discovered this in her notebook weeks ago. Today is a big day in our house. Double digits. AlmostTween. She's unbelievably excited and I, like all parents, am unbelievably stunned how quickly this is all going. When I launched my first personal blog we were collecting adoption paperwork (an adoption which took ages to complete). Ten years later I'm still blogging and she's ... Continue Reading
National Adoption Month
May 2006. For the first few years of this blog (back in the MizFit days when the tagline was ...at the CORE we're all the same.) I never mentioned my daughter's adoption. A smattering of readers had come here with me via my previous Guatemama blog. More than few readers (Id imagine? no one ever said anything) noticed our personalities matched a bit more than our outsides. I never ... Continue Reading
We cant make time.
time together is always well spent. A few weeks ago we "fell back" to standard time and, we all joked, gained an hour. In my pre-marriage/pre-child days I seized this gift of time to focus on changes I wanted to make in my life. What would I really do if I had an extra hour each day? Would I use that time to sleep? Read? Marathon TV-watch? Volunteer? I'd challenge myself with the ... Continue Reading
6 Life Lessons We Can Learn From Children.
The face and spirit which greet me each morning. My child is an early riser. She's consistently woken up around 530am since she began sleeping through the night. Friend often ask: Why don't you tell her to stay in her room until 630 or 7? The photo above is my reason why. She wakes up happy. She wakes up curious. She wakes up eager to discover what amazing thing the day will ... Continue Reading
Why do we avoid feeling fear?
Lately it's felt as though my life is one grand adventure outside my comfort zone. Currently, Lately would probably be a better way to phrase it. Each morning my feet hit the ground and the very first thing I think is: Okay, what is it today? I've lived so long outside my zone of comfy it's begun to remind me of the 90's phrase "thinking outside the box." Remember when we were ... Continue Reading
When saying YES is selfish.
The other day I had a conversation with a friend. Her husband had just been diagnosed with cancer and we were talking through how it might impact her daughter's year. "We're around lots after school," I said. "Don't hesitate to call if I can help. I'll always say no if it's a bad time." My friend sat with this information and responded: I love how you phrased that. You'll say no if it's ... Continue Reading
6 ways Gilmore Girls reinforced my parenting.
(our fancy ONLY for G.G. viewing cups.) The below is in celebration of the fact Gilmore Girls is returning for four NEW 90 minute episodes. The Child and I have already begun our preparations. Once upon a time, 15 years ago, a little show named Gilmore Girls was launched. I was a happy newlywed living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and cared NOT AT ALL about the WB channel or its ... Continue Reading
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