Dealing With Dating Setbacks
Why Aren’t You Married? Facing Your Love Alibi
Five Marriage Sins You Should Stop Committing
5 People Whose Marriage Advice You Need to Stop Listening To
5 Reasons to Stop Bashing Your Ex on Facebook
Five Phrases You’re Using that Are Hurting Your Marriage
Is Facebook Bad for Your Marriage?
Ladies Are You Too Busy? Make Time!!
The Only Reason Why You’re Not Married Yet
8 Steps to Keeping Your Marriage When You Lose Your Job
Stop Trying to Decide What Should Be Important to Your Spouse
And at 34? For most people my age, we’ve seen enough and experienced enough that we’ve determined where we’ll succeed and where we’ll fail; where we shrink and where we flourish. Our confidence is solid in some places, and non-existent in others, and in return, we’ve shrunk down a universe of possibilities to a tiny world that consists of only those we can see and feel. The thinking has gone from “you can be anything!” to “you maybe can be like 3 or 4 things.”
Being guided by experience is important. Knowing my limitations is why, unlike my 5-year-old, I know that jumping off of the back of the couch is generally a bad idea. But sometimes I define myself by those moments that told me “you can’t.” At times I have completely thought myself out of something I wanted because somewhere along the way I learned that I wasn’t good enough.
But what about when the decisions we’ve made about ourselves are wrong? How many times have we seen someone running a marathon who once thought she could barely run around the block? How often have we tried something we’ve always been afraid of to later say “that wasn’t so bad after all?”
For me, I learned early on that I wasn’t organized, and for a long time counted myself out of anything that required a lot of time management or organization skill. It wasn’t until about 5 years ago when I got serious about writing that I decided to push past that belief. In order to manage my family, my full time job, my blog and my freelance writing business, organization has to be at the root. And I’m doing a pretty good job of managing it all, if I do say so myself.
Why Aren’t You Married? Facing Your Love Alibi
Five Marriage Sins You Should Stop Committing
5 People Whose Marriage Advice You Need to Stop Listening To
5 Reasons to Stop Bashing Your Ex on Facebook
Five Phrases You’re Using that Are Hurting Your Marriage
Is Facebook Bad for Your Marriage?
Ladies Are You Too Busy? Make Time!!
The Only Reason Why You’re Not Married Yet
8 Steps to Keeping Your Marriage When You Lose Your Job
Stop Trying to Decide What Should Be Important to Your Spouse
And at 34? For most people my age, we’ve seen enough and experienced enough that we’ve determined where we’ll succeed and where we’ll fail; where we shrink and where we flourish. Our confidence is solid in some places, and non-existent in others, and in return, we’ve shrunk down a universe of possibilities to a tiny world that consists of only those we can see and feel. The thinking has gone from “you can be anything!” to “you maybe can be like 3 or 4 things.”
Being guided by experience is important. Knowing my limitations is why, unlike my 5-year-old, I know that jumping off of the back of the couch is generally a bad idea. But sometimes I define myself by those moments that told me “you can’t.” At times I have completely thought myself out of something I wanted because somewhere along the way I learned that I wasn’t good enough.
But what about when the decisions we’ve made about ourselves are wrong? How many times have we seen someone running a marathon who once thought she could barely run around the block? How often have we tried something we’ve always been afraid of to later say “that wasn’t so bad after all?”
For me, I learned early on that I wasn’t organized, and for a long time counted myself out of anything that required a lot of time management or organization skill. It wasn’t until about 5 years ago when I got serious about writing that I decided to push past that belief. In order to manage my family, my full time job, my blog and my freelance writing business, organization has to be at the root. And I’m doing a pretty good job of managing it all, if I do say so myself.
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