Once upon a time, new neighbors moved into our apartment complex. It was a nice younger couple with a child the same age as my child. I was kind of excited about it because I was really looking forward to making new friends, especially ones who live in the same building. How practical would that be if our kids could play together while we also had fun?! Little did I know, that other mother had no interest in making friends with me. Only until her mother guilted her into “giving me a chance”, did we become acquainted. Yes that’s right: she had to be convinced to even get to know me at all. At this point you might be thinking, “What did you do to make her not even want to meet you?” Good quest

Do you have dreams? Do you have goals? Do you ever talk yourself out of going for it? I get it. It’s so easy to think up all kinds of reasons why you can’t pursue that degree right now. There are so many reasons why you can’t run that marathon (besides the fact that you have never even run a mile before!). It’s so easy to create reasons (or excuses, ahem!) why things are too hard/expensive/impossible to do. I think we’ve all been there. Are you someone who can’t seem to get herself motivated? Is your inner critic really obnoxious? So many of us get stuck in our lives, stuck in the same old routines, stuck in the same job or career, and we tell ourselves that we can’t change things. We tell o