by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 31, 2015 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
Welcome to the final edition of my July habit reboot series. If you’re just dialing in, I’ve been writing all month about lessons I learned from Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives. With my new...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 24, 2015 | Mindful Eating, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
How are your eating habits? Are you one of those people who can have a chocolate bar lying around and just eat a little bit of it each day, maybe even just a few times a week? Or are you like me, chowing the whole thing down within minutes of opening the wrapping?...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 17, 2015 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Fitness, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
This month I’m implementing strategies from Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives to try to reboot my habits. Carefully chosen habits can help us spend a greater percentage of our day (and lives) doing the things...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 10, 2015 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
For a happy life, it’s important to cultivate an atmosphere of growth–the sense that we’re learning new things, getting stronger, forging new relationships, making things better, helping other people. Habits have a tremendous role to play in creating...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 2, 2015 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
Happy second half of the year! I don’t know about you, but I think there’s something about the midpoint of the year that lends itself to new starts. Most of us think about new starts in January, but I’m the type of person who needs to break a big job...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jun 26, 2015 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness
My hands reek of citrusy chemicals after swabbing down the kitchen surfaces with Clorox wipes. I move to the stairway handrails and bathrooms, trying to eradicate germs while my boys sleep. Cody, my 19-year-old son, has pneumonia. And while he had a few high fevers as...
