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...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 26, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
In 2004, to “celebrate”—using the term loosely—my 40th birthday, I trained to run the Top of Utah Marathon. One of my good high school friends, Jill Evans and I planned the event. Sam and my sister, Nora, joined us. A few days before the event, we...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 25, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
As I write this, Alana is in the last week of rehearsals for the college premier of Phantom of the Opera at BYU. As with any major-scale production, it's an exciting, challenging, and frustrating process. One night last week, the seven hour rehearsal included two...
