by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 5, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
The old adage about eating an elephant—one bite at a time—applies perfectly to goal setting. You reach any large goal by breaking it down into manageable, doable actions Large goals and overwhelming tasks are only intimidating when you look at them in totality. While...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 4, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Once every month, in college, all my voice teacher's students gathered together for a master class. We sang for each other and critiqued each other. It was always a nerve-wracking, challenging, high-growth experience. One girl I saw every month had a peculiar habit....
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 3, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Every Sunday my family attends church and sprinkled throughout the week are myriad other religious meetings. But the most spiritual place I have ever been in my life is the cannery. The LDS church has an elaborate welfare system in place. In stark contrast to most...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 2, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Monica, our 15-year-old, is a member of Acting Up! (Scera Youth Theater's premier audition/competition musical theater performing group). The group consists of a large number of high school aged kids from all over the county. Every month they perform a religious...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 1, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
When I was in college, I participated in a number of pageants in the Miss America pageant system. When I competed in my first pageant, I had never even seen a pageant in my life, either live or on TV. Suffice it to see I was not from a family that valued such things....
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 28, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Nobody's perfect. We've all heard it; we've all said it. While it's absolutely true, it's generally used as an excuse, as a negative term to explain failure. Let's turn that notion on it's head. The absence of perfection leaves the door wide open for ongoing...
