One of my goals for this year is to devote at least a bit of time every night to filling myself back up. Fewer late-night sessions packing lunches and filling out kindergarten registration forms (oh wait, I did that on Sunday night) or binge-watching Downtown Abbey Season 5 (uh...did that last …
20 Things You Can Do to Reduce Friction in Your Home Life
Shoes on the stairs, misplaced phone chargers, lost homework folders—these everyday annoyances add up, keeping us from living the calm, present lives we're all chasing. (There's some irony in chasing a calm life. But sometimes that's just how it feels, right?) When we moved to our new home, all I …
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Sometimes You Just Need to See Yourself from Someone Else’s Point of View
It was my favorite time of day. An hour before sunset. We pulled into a dirt parking lot, empty except for one car. Underneath a big, gnarly tree sat a couple, close together, on a picnic blanket. Our three kids scampered down the hillside to a fallen tree. Quickly, one became an engineer, the …
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You Are Still *You,* Even If…
How often do you gather up your fragile sense of self and willingly hand it away? If wholehearted living means never putting our worth on the table, it means first starting to take notice of the times when we do. Today—a simple reminder that you are you, and that's enough. You are still you, even …
They Have Each Other
In the car, she's always reaching out to hold her brother's hand or just rest her hand on his arm. When she was tiny, he would feed her a bottles in the car when nothing else would keep her from wailing. As she grew, he'd hand her toys or fruit snacks; he'd distract her by pointing out birds flying …
2014 Wrap-up & Thank You!
It was a productive year here at Let Why Lead! I did a re-design, wrote 9 articles for other sites, finally started a newsletter, made some wonderful new friends and connections, hosted round two of the Marriage Diaries, got quoted in the WSJ, and published 122 posts. Phew! (All for barely any money …
