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Are You Emotionally Ready to Start Your Own Business?

 We all know that a business plan is essential for starting a home – based business. There are other things, though, that are just as essential to home based business success that get mentioned far less often. One of these things is emotional readiness. Starting a home – based business is a leap of faith, and whether you are employed at a job and planning to leave in order to start your own business or currently unemployed and about to invest what little savings you have into working from home, it can be scary to take the plunge. Fortunately, just … Continue reading →

Feeling Guilty About Thanksgiving? Seven Tips to Help Curb Holiday Overeating!

If you celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, I hope you had a lovely day full of good food and great family and friends. I also hope you have no regrets about your eating behaviors. Thanksgiving and other holidays tend to encourage bad habits. The meals are full of “special” foods we don’t get on a regular basis, so there can be a feeling that you NEED to overindulge because you’re not going to see it again for another year. Plus, there’s just SO MANY good foods to sample — you don’t want to insult the chefs by not filling your plate, right? … Continue reading →

Signs of Emotional Infidelity

If you or your spouse are showing the signs of emotional infidelity then you need to get help, fast! Emotional infidelity can be devastating to a marriage, and in many cases, it will lead to physical infidelity as well. Here are some signs that there may be emotional infidelity going on in your relationship. There is more interest in spending time with someone other than your spouse. If you look forward to spending time elsewhere, even if that time is only spent through email or on the phone, then this may be a sign of emotional infidelity. Spending an unusual … Continue reading →

Should You Avoid Divorce?

There are plenty of articles out there concerning the art of avoiding divorce, as if there were some magic formula that you could apply to guarantee that your marriage will not fail. I think we all eagerly read those bits of advice as a way of making sure that our marriages are on track. Or maybe we are struggling within our marriage and are looking for the secrets of avoiding divorce. Well, let me through my two cents in here, although it might not be too popular. There are some times when divorce can’t or shouldn’t be avoided. Some people … Continue reading →

Are There Areas of Your Business You Are Avoiding?

We all have places where we shine in our home business, and areas where we would just rather not focus. For some of us, we avoid keeping care of our finances and paying the bills, for others, it might be marketing that sends us running to the nearest distraction. With so much to do in the average home based business, we can hide out and avoid some of the tasks we don’t want to face for a good while. Eventually, however, those neglected areas will need our attention. The big question to ask yourself is “Why?” Why are you avoiding … Continue reading →

The Let’s Talk Pregnancy Blog in the New Year

In closing my very first month as a Pregnancy Blogger, I am closing out a year as well. I would like to say thank you to those of you that have read my entries so far. I’m having a wonderful time writing about a topic that is very near and dear to me. I hope you all are enjoying reading as much as I am writing. Here is a look-back on December 2006 and a look forward to the things I will touch on in the New Year: I talked about a lot of things that relate to the first … Continue reading →

Emotional Landmines and the Holidays

Welcome to holiday season when families travel sometimes miles and sometimes only minutes to spend hours together, eating, drinking and celebrating Thanksgiving and family together. The problem, as most married couples can attest to, is that holidays are a great time for families to come together and for old tensions to be refueled. Family Ties & Tensions You can’t have family ties without there being tensions as well. Whether it’s disagreements over traditions, personality upheavals or just simply revisiting old family grudges, it’s important to be aware of the emotional landmines before you or your spouse accidentally detonates one. For … Continue reading →

10 Ways to Avoid Being a Bad Spouse

We talk about ways to improve our marriages and to keep our relationships strong. It’s equally important to understand that we ourselves have an effect on our marriages. We can be the bad partners. We can be the spouse that causes the issues that need to be improved. We can be the problem. Many counselors advise that while we cannot change other people, we can change ourselves. So here are 10 ways you can avoid being the bad spouse: Don’t Be Selfish – Yes, you need to take care of yourself in order to be there for others, but when … Continue reading →

Relationship Dynamics: Avoid Jealousy

Jealousy is perhaps one of the most unattractive feelings a person can experience. You may think it’s one of the worst things that can happen to a relationship, but it happens to a person before it happens to a relationship. When the green-eyed monster affects a person it can change their behavior, triggering a nasty attitude and unkind words. Snippy comments can become vile and jealousy itself can alter perceptions of the person experiencing it. Suddenly, everything a spouse does can be seen as suspicious. Even the most normal of behaviors, things that would not be seen as out of … Continue reading →

Weight Loss Pitfalls To Avoid

Now that we have resolved to keep the weight off in 2006 (read previous blog re: New Year’s Resolutions) I thought I’d throw some info your way. While we’re all starting (and re-starting) our diets, we must all be aware of the most common stumbling blocks to long-term weight loss: First and foremost! Watch The Fad Diet. While the majority of these diets promise to help you lose a large amount of weight in two seconds flat, tell you to cut certain foods out of your diet, or only let you eat certain foods it must be said that the … Continue reading →