It could be safe to say that most of us grow up playing a character in someone else’s story. If I may assume, it’s typically our parents’ story or script. From day one, they dress us in what they want us to wear, feed us what they decide, tell us how to behave according to whatever their social norms or …
How to Embrace Being Socially Awkward
Being awkward is something that comes very naturally to me. Despite what many people think of me now, I am absolutely internally awkward to the core. Social norms are not my strength, and I’ve learned how to embrace being socially awkward because it wasn’t worth feeling like I was always the problem anymore. Growing up in the household I did …
Traits of Charismatic People – Why Charisma Matters
Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me!I recently listened to this podcast episode that sparked me to write this. Until recently, I thought charisma was a negative thing to have. It’s too often interchanged with charm, and I think charm is possibly one element of charisma. However, charisma is a much deeper deep dive of …
Ways to Feel More Confident
Being a confident person is something that I would imagine most people want to achieve. Some people naturally have more than others, so it seems, and we wonder how that happens. There are those whose parents did a good job with helping them build it, and there are those who have built it up themselves through the years. And then …
Hiring a Coach: Business, Life, Clarity, Mental, Financial, Physical
This is a topic that I have been wanting to write about for a while, but also a little hesitant about because of the connotation about hiring a coach. It has lately felt like every woman who hated corporate went into the coaching business and is making more than all of us combined. Sometimes it also feels like a cult. …
Why to Love Social Media
Social media gets a lot of bad publicity in my opinion. The way people choose to use it can absolutely be toxic, but that’s their choice. For me, I use it to partake in more positive and fun interactions, as well as promote my small businesses that don’t have a large advertising budget. Since I also don’t have a very …
Inexpensive Ways to Improve Your Mental Acumen
We are bombarded every single day with information. Whether it’s on the television, through social media, or by other humans, we are receiving news. I don’t know about you, but it gets overwhelming at times, so I’ve had to figure out how to best let it into my life. Over the years, I’ve filtered out things that have left me …
The Results of Reducing My Alcohol Intake
Jumping on board with “Dry January” was something I decided in December. It was after coming back from a trip to Europe where I indulged in all things wine that I decided, starting in January, I was going to give it a rest for a solid month. Throughout the rest of December, I mentally prepared myself by giving positive affirmations …
Living Sustainably: Everything You Do Counts
The older I get, the more conscious I get about living sustainably. I’m not perfect at it, but I’ll die trying. Too often I hear people say things like “I don’t have time to think about that” or “What does this one thing I do really matter?” Well, it does matter. Everything we do matters, and to those who have …
Changes to Make in Your 40s
When I hit my 40s, I felt like a whole new world opened up to me. There was a lot of license to do things differently, although I can’t exactly explain why. Some of it is just age and comfort in who you are as a person, and some is realizing you could be halfway through your life. So then …










