by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 10, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
It's natural for decent people to feel a sense of obligation when someone helps them out, to invited someone back to dinner who first invited you, to pay back money (or sugar or eggs) lent, to send a Christmas card to those from whom you have received. Reciprocating...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 9, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Just this week (at this writing) the overblown athletic industry has had a major hit to it's collective integrity. 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong finally admitted that he (and his team) used performance-enhancing drugs and blood doped for every single...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 8, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
One of the saddest things in life is seeing women and men whose hearts are broken due to the infidelity of a spouse. When I was a teenager I met a dashing couple. They were early middle-aged, with two teen children, and a replica of Barbie and Ken. He was a very...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 7, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
How you make money and how you spend it, all reflect your character. How You Make Money Reflects On Your Character I was going to start out this post with this sentence, “While most of us have consciously thought about the ethics and morality of how we make our...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 6, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
In 1994 I started a homeschooling business. It included a subscription monthly newsletter and a small (and ever-growing) catalog of educational products. Within a couple of months I used a space on America OnLine's servers to create a very rudimentary web site for the...
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...
