I was at a conference recently and, as often happens at these things, a former Olympic gymnast came in to give a talk about excellence.
Oh, that doesn’t happen that often? Well, it happened at this one.
This guy, Peter Vidmar, won a gold medal with the US gymnastic team in the 80s and he’s parlayed that [...]
Practice Makes Permanent
Genetic Anxiety
I got commended today for having the tools to help my kid through a bit of anxiety about going to school (he’s almost 5, and some days kindergarten is too much for him), but I felt like saying that he (and his brother) deserved praise for making me find those tools.
I grew up thinking that [...]
Tea or Oranges (coming all the way from China is optional)
You know how some days you seem to be skating on the top of everything, rather than diving in like you are supposed to? I now hate that I made myself think of diving into icy water, but please bear with me.
I’m referring to those days that are so hectic that all you can think [...]
Sitting with it
I have been having a rough couple of weeks. The kind of cold that leaves you feeling run down but never develops into anything bad enough to make you lie down. Chilly weather. A kid that just started Kindergarten, then was sick for three days and lost his enthusiasm for the task. A couple of [...]
All Hail The Whiteboard
I like a good system. As I’ve mentioned before, I am an INFJ and we have a nasty habit of getting lost in the search for the perfect system – I fight against that all the time.
One real system-seeking situation for me is my To Do list. I’ve tried all kinds of systems, paper and [...]
Counterinuitive (one of my favourite words)
As a mom, I sometimes get my day off on the wrong track, and I try to juggle work and parenting at the exact same time, and I end up doing a half-assed job of both. I have this work sitting on the screen (or paper) in front of me and I can’t wrap my [...]
Why? That’s not a particularly useful question.
I have been reading and working through MJ Ryan’s This Year I Will… and I’ve gotten really into one aspect of her approach.
Ryan suggests that asking yourself why you do a particular self-sabotaging thing repeatedly is not always useful. Asking ‘Why?’ gets your left brain analyzing the problem but it won’t necessarily trigger any solutions. [...]
Blog Book Tour – Suzy Welch’s 10-10-10
Note: From time to time I will be posting book commentaries on threedeepbreaths. This particular one is part of the MotherTalk/MomCentral book tour for Suzy Welch’s new book, and I received a free copy of the book in order to review it. If I didn’t like it, I had the option of dropping out of the [...]
Not exactly groovy
I’ve been out of my groove lately, my routines have all gone by the wayside in the face of house repairs and it’s driving me crazy.
Before the last two weeks, had you asked me about my household routines I would have said something like : “I like the idea of routines, how they simplify your [...]
Taking control
The tagline of my blog says ‘Take control, feel better’ and I thought it was high time I explained that a little.
I’m in the process of learning how to let go of trying to predict all possible outcomes of new situations, and how to be a little more comfortable when sitting with uncertainty, and it’s [...]
