by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 23, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Practice what you preach. Do as you say. Walk the talk. Actions speak louder than words. You've heard these things all your life because they are true. Years ago I was struggling with my weight and brought it up in an online forum. A woman who lived close to me...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 22, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Making big strides towards your goals means doing things differently than you've done in the past. Expanding your comfort zone makes these strides possible. When looking where you can extend your reach in the world, consider how you can do the following areas of your...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 21, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Goals are hard. Big goals are harder. If we could all lose 20 pounds in a day or two, we'd probably all be slim. But results take consistent behavior over a course of time and enduring can be an enormous obstacle. How would you like to super charge your goals? Think...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 20, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
The LDS church (to which I belong) is a lay church. We aren't paid to serve, but most of us volunteer in some capacity or another. A number of years ago, Debora, a young newlywed who attended my congregation, modeled something few seem to understand…particularly in...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 19, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Doing what comes naturally, going with the flow, taking life as it comes will take you somewhere. But only in the rarest of conditions and most unusual circumstances do those paths lead to greatness or even to goodness. We define success by accomplishing more than...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 18, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
What do you want out of life that you aren't getting now? When I present goal-setting workshops at conferences, I'm befuddled by the number of people who don't have any long-term goals. They live life day to day, with their goals extending only into the next week or...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 17, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Of all the lessons in the 100 Day Challenge, this is one of my favorites…and one of the most surprising. It's a rare thing in today's culture to promote ethics. But this lesson does it powerfully. It is jam-packed with profound insights. Over the past couple of...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 16, 2013 | for Good
Television host Piers Morgan, who gives Brits a bad name, asked this question of Breitbart.com editor Ben Shapiro last week: I know the second amendment. What I haven't heard is one coherent reason why any civilian in America needs an AR-15, military style, assault...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 16, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
As I write this, I have an inbox filled to the top. It's not that I don't know it needs to be cleared. And it's not that I don't have a system in place to clear it. I'm a huge disciple of the Getting Things Done philosophy. My entire system maintenance list has been...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 15, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto studied patterns of wealth and income in the late 19th century. The Pareto Principle shows that “a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead[s] to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.” Later known as...
