If you're not completely familiar with me and who I am, then you may not know that I was once a competitive gymnast. Gymnastics was my life, and I truly did love the sport. However, it brought out a side in me that I've been trying to combat ever since: that of a perfectionist. On …
Continue reading The Get Honest Project: Recognizing My Flaws
I've been at this blogging thing for awhile. I thought I had it down pretty well by now. Well, turns out I've been doing it wrong... at least by my new standards. To date, I've put blogging in a box and placed so many restrictions on myself when it came to this outlet. I put …
Continue reading Get Honest Project: I’ve Been Doing This Wrong…
We all have our idea of what tradition is. Maybe it's something you celebrate, or something you resist, or something you simply acknowledge. I think whatever your perspective of tradition is like, though, we can all agree that there are aspects of it that we should strive for even now. Let's break it down in …
Have you ever had a really good idea? You know, the kind that makes you feel all excited and motivated to make things happen? The kind that just brightens your entire your day and makes you think completely positively? Yeah, those are the best. However, I for one always seem to think I'm going to …
Ah, fitness. Where am I at? What am I trying? What's working? What's not? Check out the start of this new series where I begin again.
This post has been a long time coming, and of course, as I've written it's become something totally different than I'd originally imagined. And I'm excited about that. The unknown hasn't been looking so scary lately; in fact, it's been looking like somewhere I want to be more often. After all, they say that there's …
I wish I could say that I was a wiz when it comes to money, along with any and all financial decisions. The truth is, I'm still working all of that out, but I do know a thing or two about what it means to invest in something. Now, granted, I've never invested a large …
This happens to all of us: you're sitting in a comfortable chair, on your phone, and then some kind of YouTube or social media vortex draws you in and when you look up, it's suddenly been three hours and it's dark outside. Yeah... not the best way to spend our time, is it? I know …
Picture this: a beautiful painting is hanging on a wall. The colors are just right and the scene is idyllic. It's an eye-catcher as soon as you walk into the room. But the frame is all wrong. It's too bulky and cumbersome. It weighs the painting down and overshadows its beauty. In order to maximize …
Continue reading I. Reframing My Mindset: Reading Can Be Bad
Blacksmiths. Shoe smiths. Wordsmiths? I first heard that term in my undergrad senior seminar. My professor put it so eloquently that I wouldn’t do it justice in a recreation, but that one word really stuck with me. Wordsmith. We cultivate words to create something beautiful. We’re experts in wordcraft, composing exposition just so that it …
