by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 8, 2012 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Life Lessons, Motivation
“My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.” — John Bryant Personal transformation is a jokester. It sneaks up and bites you on the butt when you least expect it. This happened to me this weekend on a hotel balcony...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 3, 2012 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
“Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.” Steven Pressfield, The War of Art The lake is perfectly still this morning, its glassy surface reflecting trees and docks along the shore. Even the ripples from our own boat have...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 12, 2012 | Motivation
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt I am new to this wild world of social media. I had a Facebook site, but rarely used it. I don’t like to be a slave to the computer, preferring instead to be gardening or exercising or...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 10, 2012 | Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
This morning I spent an hour trying to figure out how to link my blog to my heretofore little used Facebook page. I stumbled blindly through plug-ins and widgets and may have managed to get that little thumbs up icon activated, but the Follow Me link still...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 4, 2012 | Life Lessons, Motivation
“Who knows? Maybe what you’ve written will help others, will be a small part of the solution. You don’t even have to know how or in what way, but if you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 3, 2012 | Life Lessons, Motivation
I read three books to learn how to set up a blog to inspire my writing and connect with readers. In Create Your Own Blog, author Tris Hussey says, “Your first post will suck, and that’s okay because all first posts suck.” He says it three times, so...
