Happy New Year! 2017 went by in a flash! I thought I would get the new year started off on the right foot by setting some blog goals for 2018. When it comes to goal setting I have a terrible habit of setting WAY too many, really big goals! Many people do the same thing. What I have learned though,…
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I can’t believe this year is almost over! Just a couple more days and we will be ringing in the new year! 2017 has been a transformative year for me and this little blog of mine. In August I refocused my blog “message” if you will. I really wanted it to reflect the changes I have made to my life…
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Here we are mid-December and I am hitting my tenth month of sobriety! I get a lot of questions asking how I have made it this far without a re-lapse…especially because I don’t go to AA. It is because I have an arsenal of tools in what I like to call my sobriety toolbox. These “tools” are simply coping mechanisms…
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For months now I have been searching for the “secret sauce” to growing a blog. What I have found is that there is no one size fits all approach but there are some things you can do to really grow your blog traffic. Over the past several months I kept running across blog posts that had headlines like “explode your…
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How nice would it be to have kids that came home from school and did their homework peacefully? The hour after the kids come home is what I affectionately call “the witching hour.” They are hungry, full of energy and have little patience. To make this time of day a bit easier on everyone, I decided to change our after…
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