About Me

I am on a journey to get the most out of life, learning as I go. I hope and pray to live a life that inspires others to believe in themselves and take good care of themselves - physically, mentally, and emotionally. I am a wife, mom, educator, coffee addict, food junkie, and world traveler. I love connecting with others and hearing what makes them tick. For me, the best feeling in the world is watching someone break free of barriers that hold them back from setting personal goals and committing to seeing them through. Like all of you, I am just an ordinary person who doesn't want to settle for an ordinary life.

Not so long ago, I felt like I had a pretty ordinary life. Although I am the mother of two fantastic boys, have a pretty amazing husband, and a very fulfilling career that I worked very hard to obtain, I kept finding myself wanting more. I would get to know other people and think, "Why do they seem to be happier than me?" "What do they have that I don't have?" I would think about how fulfilling motherhood has been and how great my relationship is with my husband and the fairly abundant lifestyle my family enjoys and my fun career and all the blessings God has graced me with and all my amazing friendships...yet still wondered what I was missing.

One thing that we sometimes seem to overlook is that when we don't feel good about ourselves, it effects other parts of our lives. Some people call it the ripple effect. We start to make poor choices that then effect other areas of our lives, which causes us to feel even worse about ourselves, which cause us to make more poor choices, and so on and so on. This is exactly what was happening to me, but I called it the lazy effect. For me, I didn't feel good about the way my body looked after my pregnancies and just couldn't seem to get a handle on it. This started a ripple effect where I chose to watch more TV at night rather than get out and play with my kids. Then I started feeling like I was not available to my kids as often as I would have liked, which made me feel even worse about myself. The ripple continued to roll until I knew I wasn't the best mom, wife, and homemaker I could be, nor was I feeling like I was the best I could be in my career. I realized that the things other people had that I knew were missing in my life were there for the taking, I just needed to get up and go after them. I made some good choices that made me feel good about myself, which lead to more good choices, which lead to me feeling even better about myself, and so on and so on. Feeling good is also like a ripple effect. Your confidence and belief in yourself builds with each good choice you make and with each barrier you overcome. Pretty soon, I was looking back saying, "Wow, I did that! I did that!" I started feeling extraordinary!

So as I said earlier, like all of you, I am just an ordinary person who doesn't want to settle for an ordinary life. I plan on doing extraordinary things and hope that you do too! If I can inspire you an any way - big or small - I will feel extraordinary!