2018 was FULL of incredible reads for me. 49 books, most of them new to me, many in genres I don’t usually venture into, and many with incredible stories that I didn’t expect. You can find my full list of 2018 reads here, but the ten listed below (in no particular order) were my top ten favorites - the best of the best! Although, I had quite a hard time narrowing it down to only ten… Still Life - Louise Penny This was one of those “bookstagram made me do it” scenarios. I’ve seen …
Why I’m Not Setting A Reading Goal for 2019
New year, new reading goal… or maybe not. In 2018 I set the lofty (for me) goal of reading through 52 books within the year. Considering that I had never completed more than 32 books in 52 weeks, this was a big undertaking that I honestly wasn’t even sure I would complete. But it sounded good in my Powersheets, and like I talked about in last week’s post, I was all about setting goals based on what everyone else was doing then, so it made sense. Fast forward to December 31st, 2018, and I was …
4 Important Lessons I’ve Learned From My Mom
Happy Thursday! Today’s post is a little bit different from what I normally share, but probably my favorite thing to write in a long time. Today is my mom’s 50th birthday, and while she and my dad are off traveling through Italy today, I’m sharing the four biggest lessons that my mom has taught me so far in my 24 years of life. I’m sure there’s been hundreds of lessons she’s taught me, like when I was in seventh grade and learned that TP’ing someones house stood for “toilet papering”, or more …
What I Learned in My First Year Using Powersheets
“When something matters to you, how you get there doesn’t matter nearly as much as why.” - Lara Casey, Cultivate Your Life Podcast These words from Lara Casey in episode 2 of her new podcast hit me right in the face while I was driving to work the other day, and I’ve been thinking about them ever since. This truth is so important when we’re setting goals, and honestly just in our lives in general. The "why" behind everything that we do is what motivates us, fires us up, and keeps us moving …
My Word for 2019
I can feel the excitement of new beginnings and fresh starts. I see the rush that y’all are feeling, sharing your goals with your friends and followers, for the world to see and hold you accountable and cheer you on. I have already experienced the confusion and subsequent embarrassment at writing the incorrect date on important documents (multiple times). That means it’s finally 2019. We’ve been leading up to this date for weeks now, maybe even months, planning and dreaming, putting up and …