by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 10, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
I have great intentions. And I'm even pretty good at getting a lot of things done. My “resume” reads nicely on paper. But what's difficult is motivating myself to do the those things that aren't really urgent and aren't really critical, but could make my...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 9, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
In junior high track, our coach, Miss Gleason, taught us about the Fosbury Flop. I still remember (and it's been a really long time) how impressed I was by this story. It wasn't so much the innovation that affected me, it was the fact that Dick Fosbury was willing to...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 8, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
There is probably no other lesson in the 100 Day Challenge that I'm more enthusiastic about than this. It is a concept our culture seems to completely disregard, even though it's central to success and fulfillment. Our leaders today seem to stress the rights of...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 7, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
People do what they want to do. Period. End of story. You are where you are today largely because you wanted to be there and made choices that got you there. Your life is the collective result of your past behavior. Whenever I say that in a goal setting workshop, I...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 6, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
I've heard parents, in a kind of pot-induced haze, exclaim the superiority of letting your children choose what they believe. “Don't indoctrinate your children!” they shout. As if this ultimate freedom is somehow enlightened and open-minded. What they fail...
