by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 10, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
New Year's fitness resolutions are so common they are cliché. Go to any big box store in the first weeks of January and you'll be inundated with: Fitness equipment Diet pills, potions, and plans Vitamins About the only other kinds of products prominently displayed...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 9, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
One of the most profound principles taught by the late Stephen Covey in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is that every act has two creations: one spiritual and the other physical. Whether good or bad, or behavior is preceded by thinking and planning…even if only...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 8, 2013 | for Fun, for Good
[This post is very belated. But on the actual anniversary I was on the road back from a family Disneyland vacation. Then I got lazy. So I'm posting this today and after a while I'll backdate it.] Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day Mormon Momma first went...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 8, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
One of my great finds this year was The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor. It's a brilliant work based on psychological research that teaches how to actually, practically become happier. One of the integral parts of this program is to actively practice the art of...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 7, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
When I attended BEA a few years ago, I got a pre-publication copy of Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival Guide for Women Over 45 from the author, Christopher Hopkins. (Who, by the way, also gave me an eyelash curler and then said I didn't need it. Heh.)...
