January does not typically seem to be the month for happy news–instead, it usually suffers in gloomy silence as the ugly middle child squashed between buoyant December and perky February, and it and I have a long history of grey moods and general dreary demeanors together. BUT! Today—today I have joyful news to share with …
Partly due to my failure to complete any of my resolutions last year and partly due to all that I’ve learned and postulated about habits vs. goals in the past few years, I’m doing my new year’s resolutions a little bit differently in 2016. After much informal research (aka, me learning by trial and error), …
With all the valuable lessons I learned last year, you’d think I would have crushed my new year’s resolutions for 2015. Well, not exactly. Actually, I didn’t complete a single one. This is unprecedented for me, I think–most years, I complete at least half my resolutions, and there have been a few notable years when …
A good holiday break needs to have a good dose of crazy loud fun with family and friends (check), a healthy taste of something new (check), and a big ol’ dollop of just quiet contentment. Because, let’s face it, as an instructor of over 150 students, “quiet contentment” is a commodity that’s hard to come …
