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Send us Fan Mail  “When you use some of these hacks your cravings begin to go away.”   This episode is part 3 and the last podcast about the Book, Glucose Revolution by Jesse Inchauspé.  Today I share hacks #6-10.  These hacks include things like drinking vinegar and moving after you eat.  Lots of really great hacks to help us find ways to flatten our glucose curve and reduce inflammation and free...

Send us Fan Mail  “In any case, calories measure heat generated, nothing else.”  This week I continue sharing parts of the book, Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé.  In the last part of the book, Jessie Inchauspé writes about 10 hacks that we can try to flatten our glucose curve.  Doing this gives us more energy, reduces cravings,  can help people to sleep better, and even lose weight.  This w...

Send us Fan Mail “Suffice it to say, humans need a tremendous amount of fuel.” This episode is going to highlight a book titled Glucose Revolution - the life changing power of balancing your blood sugar by Jessie Inchauspé. First I begin by sharing the story about my mom and son’s struggle with sleep and how I learned that it can be related to regulating your blood sugar.  In part one of this 3 pa...

Send us Fan Mail " This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything." I am excited to begin 2023 and with that I am going to share the ideas of motivation, commitment and goals.  I begin with the importance of having motivation as you start to want to achieve or accomplish something.  That first part is very important but then I also mention that we need to make su...

Send us Fan Mail “It’s been fun to look back.”   This week I am taking the last episode in 2022 to look back on the year and talk about some of my favorite podcasts topics from 2022.  Beginning with the book, Atomic Habits and spending the majority of the summer and fall with the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people.  Plus a few topics like pet peeves and procrastination also were a few of my favs....

Send us Fan Mail “I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.”   Today’s Christmas message is to remind myself and all of you to be of good cheer and be happy.  For the Savior of the World has come and He fulfilled his promises.  I share how it is easy for us to choose to be miserable but that we can remember what this Christmas season really means.  We can have hope and g...

Send us Fan Mail   “Sometimes the expectations we impose upon ourselves actually take away from the joy of the season rather than magnify it.”    Another gift that is free and we can give to ourselves and to others this Christmas season is the gift of letting go of expectations.  Do some of the things we expect or think will make a really great Christmas really bring us closer to the Savior and th...

Send us Fan Mail “Families need one another. Don’t hold grudges.”   This week as we get into December and into the Christmas season I wanted to share a few gifts we can give at Christmas time.  This week I am sharing the idea of not mentioning past mistakes.  It comes from Ezekiel 18:22 which says that God will not mention our past transgressions. For this season I invite you to refrain from bring...

Send us Fan Mail  “Extending Trust to others rekindles the inner spirit - both theirs and ours.”   The episode today gets into more depth about the idea of Extending Trust but in a smart way.  What Stephen M.R. Covey writes in his book The Speed of Trust   and calls it Smart Trust.  It involves two thing both a high propensity to trust as well as high analysis.  I also share what it looks like in...

Send us Fan Mail “When you make a commitment you build hope, when you keep it, you build trust.”  Finishing up the last 3 behaviors to build trust from the Book, The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey.  These behaviors include, Listen First, Keep Commitments, & Extend Trust.  The first two are quite familiar as they are part of the 7 habits. The last one Extend Trust is a little different as...

Send us Fan Mail   “Trust the noun - what we feel - is often the result of trust the verb - what we do.”        In this episode I talk  more about the behaviors that help build trust, #6-10 from Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust.   Trust includes both integrity and competence, this episode's behaviors are related to your competence.  They include Deliver results, Get Better, Confront Rea...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am sharing 5 of the 13 behaviors included in the Book, the Speed of Trust by Steven M.R. Covey.  These behaviors all relate to your character or the root of the tree (from last week’s podcast ep.112).  They include, talk straight, demonstrate respect, create transparency, right wrongs and show loyalty.  I share the opposite and counterfeit to each of these behaviors an...

Send us Fan Mail  “Trust is the highest form of human motivation”   In this episode I am going to discuss the topic of Trust.  I found this book written by Stephen M.R. Covey, (Stephen R. Covey’s son) titled The Speed of Trust.  I first go over 9 myths that Stephen M.R. Covey mentions in the book and how the book shows us the real truths about trust.  I use the first half of the book to then talk...

Send us Fan Mail “ … all it takes to reach a big goal is doing a bunch of little tasks all together.”   Last week none of my kids helped with the dishes.  I sure am noticing how I am struggling a bit to follow through with the agreements I have made with them.  So this episode includes 10 tips on ways to be better at following through, with either great ideas or goals.  A few of the tips include,...

Send us Fan Mail “The one thing I just love about Halloween is to let your creative juices flow and not feel like it has to be perfect.”   Halloween is one of my families’ favorite times of the year.  We all love to dress up and be creative and then get some candy along the way.  In this episode I share a few of my favorite costumes that we have done as a family and some also individually.  I love...

Send us Fan Mail “We should treat the commitments we make to ourselves as seriously as those we make to the most important people in our lives. ” I have been thinking a lot about how important it is to keep promises that we make to ourselves and found some great info for us and especially for our youth and children to help them build their own personal emotional bank account.  There are 6 things l...

Send us Fan Mail “Expressing gratitude to others helps counteract all of the annoying things you may think about them.”   I have been writing in my journal a paragraph almost each day about things I am grateful for.  It really has been helping me but lately I have felt like I needed to make sure to express that gratitude more regularly.  In this episode I share how you can build an upward spiral o...

Send us Fan Mail "Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all of the time.”   This week I really worked on writing my mission statement.  I share in this episode a few things that helped me get writing.  I also share a few tips left at the end of the Habit 2 chapter from Sean Covey and a great story he told about Clayton Christensen.  If you haven’t taken the time to sit down and fig...

Send us Fan Mail “You cannot hold people responsible for results if you micromanage either them or their methods.”  In this episode I go back to Habit 4, Win/Win, from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, and am trying to understand agreements better especially in regards to making them with my children. I break down the 5 parts of an effective win/win agreement. I  also spend som...

Send us Fan Mail “Anytime you start thinking the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.”  In the last chapter of 7 Habits for highly effective people ,  Stephen Covey shares some great stories and this impactful statement, there is a gap between stimulus and response. I share a few of those stories as well as a review of all of the 7 Habits.  I share the 21 effective practices tha...

Send us Fan Mail “This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life — investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.”   We have made it to Habit 7 - Sharpening the saw or Renewal from the book 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey.  In this episode I share the 4 different areas that we should take time to...

Send us Fan Mail “Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It’s not logical: it’s psychological.”  Episode 103, I share my thoughts about Habit 6 from 7 Habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey.  Habit 6 is synergy and it combines habits 4 & 5 but it also includes a belief in the value of differences.  In addition it includes the idea that the whole i...

Send us Fan Mail “In empathic listening, you listen with your ears, but you also, and more important, listen with your eyes and with your heart.” This week I am talking about Habit 5 from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.  Habit 5 is to seek to understand then to be understood and I believe can really make a big difference with your family.  In this episode I share what Step...

Send us Fan Mail “ But win/win is nice… and tough.”  This episode I will be discussing Habit 4 - The Win-win principle from 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey.  This principle involved the abundance mentality as well as integrity and maturity. I also go over the other different principles we see a lot in our lives, like win-lost.  The purpose of learning more about this is to...

Send us Fan Mail  “I am still making my bed, well most days.”  Hooray!! This podcast has hit triple digits! Wahoo!!!  This episode I reflect  back and see how far this podcast has come from the early days.  I talk about the things that I have learned and how I have grown. Going back and looking at questions that I found from episode 21, Joy in the journey.  I also share some of the favorite things...