For the next two weeks, I’m challenging myself to wake up early (5am on week days!) in order to turn my mornings into a time to take care of and ‘restore’ myself. I have been realizing recently that for a long time I’ve neglected my emotional/mental and spiritual health. I’m trying to turn my mornings…
Category: Personal Growth
What Wearing Dresses for a Month Taught Me
Watching the news and following current events can be overwhelming. It’s easy for me to look at all of the injustices going on in our world and resign myself to just mind my own business — what difference could I make, anyway? I’m learning that you don’t need to save the world to make a difference….
Three Words for 2015
I’m not a huge fan of New Year resolutions. Don’t get me wrong – I make goals all the time. But forcing myself to make a resolution just because it’s January has never been a very effective way to motivate myself. I’d prefer to make goals that I truly want to achieve when I am…
Recap: 2014
Reflecting on the three words I chose to guide me through 2014, I am amazed at how much they described my year. I wanted to do a quick recap before I write about the three words I chose for 2015: Strength There were two main areas that I wanted to focus on gaining strength in:…
Embracing What I Used to Hate
The other day I found a list I had written a year or so ago of things I hated about myself. Why I still have it is beyond me. But as I read through this list of things I disliked about myself, it was funny to see how I’ve changed and that quite a few…
Hospitals, Twister, and Indifference
“Remember when we went to Canada a few years ago?” “Yea! That was so much fun! We should do something like that again.” “For real! Where should we go?” “Um… Nashville?!” And that’s how this crazy road trip came to be. Or something like that. My friend Janine and I decided to take a long…
The Fear of Being Boring
The other day, a good friend of mine and I were sitting in a coffee shop just catching up on life. We talked about our semesters, spring break, careers, taxes etc. Taxes. Ugh. We came to the horrible realization that we are finally at the point in our lives where we could sit, drink coffee,…
Flappy Bird Changed My Life
Said no one ever. Unless maybe we are talking about how Flappy Bird destroyed their self-confidence (what do you mean all of these 11-year-olds have a higher score than me?!), wasted hours of their time, lowered their productivity at work/school, or kept them up at night pondering how they could get the little flappy bird…
Three Words for 2014
Recently I wrote a post summing up 2013 in three words (well, a little more than three by the time I was done). I decided to follow Jessica Lawlor’s lead and claimed three words for 2014. I thought of these words a while ago and figured I should write this post before it becomes irrelevant =P…
Three Words for 2013
I did so many things in 2013 that I would had never expected — and some things I wish wouldn’t have happened. Looking back and reflecting has been interesting and challenging. I know it is half way through February, but I wrote this a while and am typing it up now… Here are three words I…
Kayla Sheely 