Are you Greater or Less than Your Mental Health?

Are you Greater or Less than Your Mental Health?

I wanted to share an important message in light of Mental Health Awareness month. It’s gonna be gritty and raw. And that is for good reason. You may know that I was brought up in a home where Mental UNhealth was prominent. At least partly because of that, I have spent...
A Review of The Book of Mistakes by Skip Prichard

A Review of The Book of Mistakes by Skip Prichard

Who knew mistakes are a secret to creating a successful future? More specifically, that learning from our mistakes is the not-so-hidden secret? That’s what compelled CEO, speaker, and leadership thought leader, Skip Prichard to write The Book of Mistakes, 9...
To Live Fully Alive, You Must Do More than Exist

To Live Fully Alive, You Must Do More than Exist

How can we be fully alive? I mean really and truly fully alive? There are many ways we go about making it happen. And we might even think we are doing it. Yet, the contentment, satisfaction, and good feelings that made us that way eventually fade. Sometimes it’s...
How to Reframe Anxiety for Personal Growth

How to Reframe Anxiety for Personal Growth

The ability to reframe anxiety is a vital personal growth tool that we – introverts and otherwise – should seek to master. Having spent most of my life being an anxious and nervous person, this took me a look time, and I am still working on it. But the...
The Life Balance Myth and What You Can Do About it

The Life Balance Myth and What You Can Do About it

Balance, life balance in particular, is something I am personally pondering during most of my days. It’s something I’m always aspiring toward and am always hoping to achieve for many reasons. Yet balance, life balance in particular, eludes me. I have pursued it in...
Christian Living and the Sin of Wanting More

Christian Living and the Sin of Wanting More

[special]I’m excited to introduce 1Glories readers to guest blogger, Rana Tarakji. She’s a fellow blogger, entrepreneur and Christ follower who passionately pursues a refining life, on purpose. In this guest post, Rana tackles an important subject that most...
Impostor Syndrome and Giving Up Control of the Narrative

Impostor Syndrome and Giving Up Control of the Narrative

I learned about something called Impostor Syndrome a few years ago. It gave me an understanding of something I intuitively knew, but couldn’t label. In short, it’s a concept describing high-achieving individuals who have a fear of being exposed as fraud. They...
Some of the Many Ways We Can Show Up – 7 Posts

Some of the Many Ways We Can Show Up – 7 Posts

What does it mean to SHOW UP? When I first unpacked this life lesson in Listen Up, Kids, it was about being physically present. In a sense, it was along the lines of show up to school every day and you will at least get a good score in attendance/participation. As I...
Milestone Moments and the Many Mini-Moments in Between

Milestone Moments and the Many Mini-Moments in Between

Today represents a couple events that might be called milestone moments. The most obvious one is Columbus Day. The other milestone moment is a little more personal. It’s my fortieth birthday. I don’t’ spend a lot of time talking about my birthdays, because I find that...
When a Window of Opportunity Becomes a Door

When a Window of Opportunity Becomes a Door

Opportunity exists all around us, we just have to be active at recognizing and responding. It’s sometimes the result of good planning and it’s sometimes being aware of seemingly random happenings. Regardless, there’s a moment when you have to be decisive, committed,...