I was watching a video on Instagram that my friend and colleague, Camilita Nuttal and her husband posted. They were celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary and their business successes. They outlined some basic principles to their success. If you know me at all, you know I love principles. Principles are powerful, they are life changers. Once we discover the principle, we can apply it to any area of our life. Principles don’t change and they are a better predictor of outcomes than anything else I know of. If you don’t own a business, stay with me for a bit to see how their business principle can apply to you. As Camilita and her husband were reflecting on their struggles to get their businesses going, (yes, they have 4!), they shared how really hard it was and many times they thought, “When is it going to happen for me?” Many times
Sunday, September 6th was National Fight Procrastination Day. Why do we procrastinate? The most common answer I get from people is that the thing they say they want to do is hard or uncomfortable. Even though they know it may be good for them, they procrastinate beginning. Why should we undertake hard tasks? I’ve learned this: You get to have either hard-easy or easy-hard. And what I mean by that is often when we choose to do the easy thing now, we set ourselves up for a harder existence later on. Take your health as an example, we pay for our health now or later, but we will pay. We all know we should exercise, but we put it off. in which case, we are choosing easy/hard. Meaning, it is easy to sit on the couch and watch TV and eat potato chips, and the hard part comes later with possible poor health,
Lori Petro has a channel on YouTube called, Teach Through Love, and she is doing some really great things with parenting. Lori is a mom and a blogger who takes questions from her audience like we do at Live On Purpose TV. Lori has a video up about how to get toddlers to stop hitting. I’ve got some ideas about that as well and I love what Lori said in her video about how hitting is age typical. Now I’m going to say age typical rather than age appropriate which is another term that you’ll hear sometimes. It’s an age typical behavior for toddlers, they do it, it’s common. Now that doesn’t mean that it’s adaptive or it’s what we want so obviously we are going to do some things to see if we can get that to stop. If you keep in mind that it’s age typical though, it’s