Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you experience these feelings more often than you would like? When we experience overwhelm, it can lead...

What does it mean to you to feel overwhelmed? Like a juggler who can’t keep all your props in the air? Like you’re drowning? Or buried?...

National Nutrition Month® is a campaign of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, held each year in March, to “focus attention on the...

Habits are successful because… well, because they are habits. We do them with little thought and minimal effort. However, a habit may...

Achieving goals and creating habits can be hard! To make the process more successful and permanent, we’ve explored the importance of:...

When you fail to achieve a goal or establish a habit, what barriers are most likely preventing your forward progress? Who or what is...

Habits are automatic behaviors, actions we take without conscious thought. To change a habit requires the opposite – conscious thought...

If you visit a new website, do you appreciate it being user-friendly and easy to navigate? If you are searching for a new recipe, do you...

What have you wished for that hasn’t come to fruition? Stop and think – did you have a plan in place to make that wish a reality? Likely...

When do you most often set goals? At New Year’s when making resolutions is considered the thing to do? In fact, if you don’t set goals at...

Kindness. What does it mean to you? It goes beyond being nice. It is demonstrating compassion, grace, empathy, goodwill, mercy,...

The pursuit of happiness. A right listed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence along with life and liberty. A call to personal...

Do you want to be more successful in your personal and professional life? Who doesn’t!? When thinking about factors that could lead to...

Do you feel grateful? Do you say thank you or write notes of appreciation? Are you characterized by an “attitude of gratitude”? In the...

Gratitude. That’s a word one hears a lot at this time of year, the season of Thanksgiving. We are encouraged to have an attitude of...

Do family meals matter? What difference do they make? What does the research say? Family meals are associated with many benefits Research...

Did you experience family meals growing up? Do you experience family meals today? I have asked those questions to hundreds of audience...

Can you recall a great conversation during a meal? Maybe it lasted well past the food was eaten and the dishes were cleared away. You...

For many years, when I presented about family meals, I collected feedback from my audiences about their experiences with and beliefs...

Habits are a wonderful tool for achieving our goals because they automate the behaviors that are necessary for reaching those goals. The...