
The Missing Piece of the Personal Development Puzzle
Self-help tells you what, how, and why, but never when. That missing answer might be the only thing standing between you and real change.

Self-help tells you what, how, and why, but never when. That missing answer might be the only thing standing between you and real change.

How can a Personal Retreat Day improve your life? When the day is clearly planned with purpose behind it. For the past 13 years, I’ve been taking one day every month to rest from striving and design the next steps in my journey, and I love to support others who are doing the same.

I’ve been reading a lot about what makes our goals stick around long enough to become habits. One tip is to write your goals down (on paper is better than electronically) and read them every day. Another ingredient for success is to celebrate small wins regularly and reward your efforts with some kind of treat.

Most of us go throughout our days in auto-pilot. Eat, sleep, work, repeat has become a mantra for the frenetic pace of the daily grind. That’s why taking regular Personal Retreat Days is so important – it interrupts the habitual flow of mindlessly moving from one day into the next and gives you a blessed opportunity to simply THINK and BE.

What can we do when we’ve set meaningful goals, and then something comes along that sabotages our best intentions?

My husband and I have a wonderful Sunday morning routine. When the weather is nice, we walk to the neighborhood coffee shop and chat about what happened during the week. Then I record what I

Life is crazy. Most of us spend our days rushing frantically from one task to the next: get up, exercise, work, take care of the kids, cook dinner, eat, clean, watch TV, sleep, repeat. One