by Debra Smouse | Mar 8, 2022 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
It’s time to dive into spring with gusto, and for me that means a little spring cleaning over the next month. Cleaning the deck off and preparing it for dinners and morning coffee. Cleaning behind the fridge. And yes, cleaning windows. My mind is often overflowing...
by Debra Smouse | Mar 2, 2022 | Feeling Burned Out, Stressed Out, Overwhelmed & Exhausted, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Fourteen years ago, not only did I quit making New Year’s resolutions, I also stopped giving up stuff for Lent. Instead of the annual ritual of temporarily sacrificing some arbitrary thing (chocolate, frou-frou coffee, eating out, whatever), I took a class on...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 30, 2021 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Welcoming a New Year has long been synonymous with fresh starts and the idea of making resolutions to Make Your Life Better. I haven’t made New Year’s Resolutions in over a decade. Yet I get the appeal to them! For a brief moment, you are looking at the kind of life...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 25, 2021 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Merry Christmas, darling. I know that by the time you read this, the stockings have been emptied, the latkes of Hanukkah are a memory and the breakfast casseroles have been reduced to crumbs. So many warm holiday wishes no matter when you’re reading this. As I...
by Debra Smouse | Nov 14, 2021 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Do you want to know the practice that has helped me create a life that I love for the last seventeen years? Choosing a “Word of the Year” to serve as a touchstone, guide, and theme for the year. This has been especially helpful in years that were...
by Debra Smouse | Mar 8, 2021 | Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
I used to live by the mantra “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” I was the gal rising at 5 AM and going to bed around midnight. I rose quickly and immediately got busy. There was coffee to drink and work to be done. Sleep is one of the things I sacrificed on the regular. I...
by Debra Smouse | Dec 31, 2020 | How To Fall In Love With Your Life Once & For All, Strategies To Get Your Life On Track
Though I know there are no magic solutions to life’s challenges, I want to share my secret weapon that I’ve been using for the last sixteen years that doesn’t cost a dime: choosing a word of the year. When you choose a Word of the Year it gives you a touchstone of...