by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 11, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
It is more satisfying to focus on enhancing the lives of others than it is trying to achieve our own peace of mind. When I was a child, Christmas was the most exciting day of the year. My sister and I would dance to our Christmas album, singing the songs at the top of...
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...
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...
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...
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....
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 6, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Today’s 100 Day Challenge lesson seemed rather mundane. A call to action, a reminder to be serious about accomplishing goals, a little kick in the backside to do something valuable. But it became one of the most profound lessons in the entire series. In fact,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 5, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Leadership is all about one enduring quality: character. I’d tend to disagree…given the plethora of political and business leaders whose seem to lack every virtuous character trait ever identified. But then I realized that it’s all in the definition. In...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 4, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
One of the lessons my parents made sure was engrained into me was to demand quality. And by quality I do not mean brand names of high expenses. For decades my mother subscribed to Consumer Reports and I devoured it. Even when I was in elementary school, I was...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 3, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom records one of the most profound human responses I’ve ever seen outside of deity. She and her sister, Betsy, had read in this Bible verse: Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will...
