Many who desire to control their weight don’t get the results they want by simply resolving to eat better meals. A common reason is impulse snacking.
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I’m not against snacking. Completely eliminating something tends to make us want it more. I like to simply replace unhealthy, impulse snacking with well-planned snacks.
Just about every parent I’ve ever met has been anxious about their child reaching their teenage years. I get it. We remember the frustration and tension when we were growing up. We now think bad karma will bring its payback to us.
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But it doesn’t have to be this way in your home—for you or your kids. Yes it’s an unavoidable season of transition. It can get dicey at times. It will require some planning, patience, and commitment to each other. Yet rather than feeling doomed for the worst, you can genuinely expect to make it a great season that has long-lasting benefits.
You’ve got your day planned out just perfectly. Plenty of time to complete the things that are have-to’s for today. And then it happens. That unexpected interruption.
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Maybe it’s a coworker who needs assistance, or a neighbor who likes to talk stops by, or even a driver who doesn’t seem to be able to keep a good steady pace with all the other traffic on the road. Or irritating technology woes like your computer freezing up.
One of my coaching clients says I’m the only guy he knows who wakes up to relax! I have a goal to help others do the same.
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One of the practices I encourage others to build into their morning routine is solitude. Taking advantage of the peace in early morning isolation to help set a more relaxed tone for your day.
While traveling Paris together via the Metro subway system, we covered a lot of unfamiliar territory—with relatively few mistakes. Even when we did board a train going the wrong way, it was easily corrected and only cost us a few minutes.
It hit me one morning why it was such a good experience for us. I posted the picture above with the caption: I navigate. She translates. This was literally the case while traveling a foreign city.
We’re already starting to hear about this year’s seasonal wave of flu and colds coming for us. From most messages, you’d think we were all doomed. Seemingly well-intentioned, a lot of these premonitions do more to sell more vaccines, antibiotics, and other synthetic drugs than help build essential natural defenses.
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I choose not to participate. I don’t like being sick. Although I’m approaching the age group that is supposed to be more susceptible to illness, I’ve been more resilient to these seasonal illnesses the past five years than ever before.
Parents frequently ask us how they can teach their children to get along with each other. The more children in the family, the more opportunities there are for stress in those relationships. Because we had five young ones in our family, this was something we had to be very intentional about.
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A child is born self-centered. They automatically cry to get their needs met. While that’s okay as babies, this would never be acceptable for an adult. So somewhere along the way, they will need to realize that they must begin to think of others in order to succeed in life. There’s no better place to learn this than at home.
Almost everyday, one or more of my adult sons and daughters reach out to me to get my input on something. It’s always a highlight of my day and is the long-standing reward of being the go-to person from their childhood.
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What parent doesn’t want to be included among their child’s most valued advisors—or even better, their first choice?! That can be your reality with a little intentionality and consistency.
I’ve written previously about how using rewards to motivate kids’ behavior can be a lifesaving tool in training your children. I love this topic and want to talk further about setting up rewards for your kids.
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Keep in mind that what motivates one child may not necessarily be motivating for the next. So I love to find out what each child’s ways of giving and receiving love are. It’s a great way to differentiate rewards for each child. This is the beauty of setting up reward systems for each child: determining behaviors that need reinforced in individual kids as well as varying the rewards for each child.
I’ve been working on my personal time management skills for over 35 years. It started out of a need for survival. A young husband and dad passionate about serving in a fast-growing church—trying to keep up with all the responsibilities of these roles and seize every opportunity that came along.
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In those days, it was all about efficiency for me. Trying to figure out how I could do tasks faster to create more time to fill up with other activities. I got pretty good at it.
