How To Be Awesome At Everything

If you spend  18 minutes a day  — focused on learning or practicing a skill, you will become  better than 95% of the population  at that skill.   That's the 100 hour rule.  It's about consistency and this concept of  small daily progress  that compounds over time.   Jesse Itzler popularized this concept and it shows that you can become great at anything you're willing to put 100 hours towards.    ...

We took Parker and the girls and a few buddies to Dave and Busters a few weeks ago and there was this small thing that happened that has been a huge perspective shift in my life. it's worth a podcast episode.   I was telling Craig on the way there that I've kept all our past Dave and Buster's card organized in the Ziploc baggie in my purse so we have so many cards we have endless game credits we w...

The craziest thing that I've learned over the last year of reading and re-reading aging and longevity books is that much of what we think is natural aging is actually neglect.     My goal in this episode is to reframe what we assume or are told is "natural aging" or "just getting older" and show all the small things that we might be neglecting over time.   This whole concept is so empowering!!  Ra...

In this episode, I'm sharing the best tips for maximizing your budget when it comes to party planning - especially kids parties.   I have this way of doing it that's efficient and organized and easy to decide what's worth paying for and what's better to do yourself.    I'm sharing specific examples from the Party I just threw for Parker because I think it will give you lots and lots of ideas for t...

Over the years, I've spent lots of time in hospitals as we navigate keeping Craig healthy despite his genetic heart issues. This past week was another week spent in the hospital for us and even though we've done this so many more times than we would like… Every time I come out with a new perspective in someway or a new thoughts on really how to keep your health as the highest priority in life and...

Quick story to explain this - I was testing out a new business and I was talking to my husband about this product and the cost of goods and profits and the industry and I was explaining about the strong positioning I'll have in the marketplace and he was like many sold last month and what was the net profit?  And when I told him - he's like your time is worth more- that's not big enough - and I'm...

This episode is all about The Vacation Reset.  How to come home, take a fresh look at your routine, and use everything you felt and experienced on your trip to make your everyday more fulfilling. So rather than having post-vacation blues you have this fresh perspective on everything - what you're eating, what you're spending your free time doing, and what makes you feel the most alive.  It a post-...

Here are some key strategies to help you plan ahead, manage stress, and respond with patience instead of snapping at your loved ones: Why We Get Snippy & How to Prevent It Lack of Time = Lack of Patience  – When we're rushed, our tolerance drops. Planning ahead creates space for calmer interactions. Stress & Overload  – When our mental/emotional load is too heavy, small things set us off. Managing...

This episode is all about documents your highs in life, so you can create more of them. As a person who's thought a lot about joy and happiness and fulfillment - if we just try to simplify all of that - I really think it comes down to stringing as many awesome days together as you can. Identifying what made you feel the happiest, the strongest, the most fulfilled… all of it. You probably know I'm...

Today we are training to be unaffected by chaos!   How to get through it without anxiety or stress or losing your cool.    I love topics that make us make a plan ahead of time, so when we are in a situation like this, we react exactly as we want to because we've thought through it ahead of time.    We aren't reacting out of emotion, but out of a place of control and strategically.  You probably kn...

This podcast topic might seem a little extreme, but I honestly think it's the difference between planners and doers. Between amateurs and pros.    It's this attitude that I will succeed at this or I will die trying. Said differently - I won't stop until it works.    Because everything takes a long time and it will eventually work if you try hard enough and do enough repetitions and fail enough and...

Most of us feel like we simply don't have enough hours in the day to do all the things.  To do the things we WANT to do and also the things we HAVE to do.  Today we are talking through overall strategies we can use to make the most out of our days… and also very specific examples of ways you can do things more efficiently so that you simply have more time.  If we can eliminate decision fatigue, sc...

There is this incredible freedom that comes when you simply cannot be offended.   You have more inner peace, stronger relationships and just more joy in your days.    In order to never be offended by something someone says, I think we need to first put them in one of two buckets, then unpack from there.  They are either in your inner circle or not in your inner circle.    If they are - then you lo...

This podcast episode is a full education on how habits work and what experts say about the importance of planning and consistency and how to set yourself up to do the tiny daily things that support your big goals.    This is a walk through of the 2.0 Habits System that I created- so if you are already a part of our community - you'll love learning more about how to really make the system work best...

To me Valentine's is so much more impactful when it feels like a season of extra love, rather than a mandatory date night on a certain day.    At the entrance to our wedding in 2009, when I was 27 years old,  I hand rhinestoned letters to go over the arch walking into our reception in Mexico that said CELEBRATE LOVE because that's literally my life mantra.  Love is what we all want to feel and exp...

This is one of those things that I wish I would have understood as clearly in my 20s and 30s as I do now in my 40s… but I guess that's living and learning. It's the understanding that the small things are what matters.  The small things we do or don't do everyday.  It's what Warren Buffet describes as the power of compounding interest.  It's building a little snow ball and rolling it down a very l...

When someone asks you if you can attend an event or party or get together, what's the first thing you do?   You check if you're free!  If you're available at that day and time.  And then, if you are free, you'll probably say yes.  How could you say no, you aren't busy then.    This is where it happens!  We feel like we owe it to them to go, because we aren't busy.  But we could end up spending tha...

Here's how it works.  Every Sunday when you are planning out your week, you decide on what your four no's will be.  These are things that you just won't do.  It works so well because it's not making this big list of things you have to do - like go to the gym for an hour a day, set aside time and a quiet space to meditate- while I love all things like that too- what we are talking about today is so...

Here we go right into the biggest and most fun holidays of the year.  But with that often comes stress, arguments, expectations not met, exhaustion… this podcast episode is to help with all of that! We are talking about some key things to think about ahead of time to have the most happiest holiday. Like… **Don't have set rigid expectations - and for things that are important to you, make sure the...

I just learned these two BEST strategies for responding when    Notice I said respond not react because we know the longer we can space out the action or comment and our reaction the more control we have.    These two strategies will teach you HOW TO RESPOND when someone belittles you or says something disrespectful.    And then best part is, you leave the situation having handled it with confiden...

Today, we're just going to jam on gratitude and perspective and how the way we frame things is the way we see them.  I'm sharing what I think are the most valuable insights and thoughts I have in this season of life.  Things I've learned from my reading a book a week every week and just being a student of life.  Having conversations with all different types of people and perspectives and with diff...

Whether you have one kid or 5 kids or you don't have kids but plan to one day… this podcast episode is filled with ideas for you to really connect with each child - starting at any age.    Life is busy and the months go by quickly.  I've learned just how important it is to slow down and be mindful of the relationship and connection that you have with each child and how it changes as they get older...

Every year around my birthday I'm like, ok, what's the secret unlock at this age?  Like what have I learned and what I am doing that makes the biggest difference in my life? This year, that skill that I've unlocked in myself this ability to turn what feels like the worst thing, into the best thing. In a very practical and realistic way. So aside from anything really really sad in life, this strate...

Today we're talking about party cakes!   And all the ways you can make them magical.    From cakes you make yourself at home, to store or bakery bought cakes that you jazz up to custom made cakes, I have ideas for you for all of them!    From simple to extravagant and ways to make the party cake so magical and perfect for the occasion.    My goal in this episode is to give you lots of ideas so nex...

It may sound obvious, but honest, like real saying what you think,   I'm obsessed with being honest and direct because it does so much for you.    If you need to tell someone how you really feel or cancel on some thing or decline an invitation, be honest. Be kind and considerate and compassionate and have empathy… all those things. But just be honest.    Even if it stings for a second people will...