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...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 27, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
When this lesson began, I was sure I wouldn't like it. You see, I have an entirely different view on self-esteem than just about every person I know. The common pop-psych approach to raising self-esteem has always seemed nonsensical to me. Sure, being positive with...
