Personal Development

My bad good goal

My bad good goal

No more back outages in 2024! This was the bad goal I told to my personal trainer. It's not a bad goal because it's not what I want. It's a bad goal because I can't actually make that happen. When we talk about our SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable,...

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No more new year new you

No more new year new you

I was completely a "new year new you" person for years. Each new year rolled around and this was finally going to be the year I was going to do things differently.   I tried resolutions. I tried goals. I tried themes. I tried big. I tried small.   But at the...

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What I liked about getting Covid

What I liked about getting Covid

So Covid sucks, obviously. I had been lucky to avoid it for as long as I did but this last uptick got me.   And while it is definitely not how I wanted to spend the last ten or so days I'm a learn-from-your-experience kind of gal. So here are a few of the things...

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Failure to thrive

Failure to thrive

A while ago, when I was working one of my crazy contract jobs I finally made an appointment for my annual physical. You know how you wait in the room totally bored and impatient about the thousand of things you should be doing? So I was checking out all the...

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Dry/ Clean/ Healthy/ Reset January?

Dry/ Clean/ Healthy/ Reset January?

One year, ages ago, a work friend of mine got me on board with doing a dry January. Sure why not?   Turns out giving up alcohol after the holidays led to a little more sugar consumption than I wanted so the next year I did no alcohol and no sweets. Which then led...

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