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Lori Radun
Member since 08th November 2006
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01st December 2008
Extreme busyness is a chronic disease that afflicts many moms today. As a matter of fact, I was just listening to the One Month to Live DVD by Kerry and Chris Shook. They identified three passion busters. I’m not talking about sexual passion, althoug...
12th November 2008
The other day I was reading a blog post from a mom who had just returned home from a relaxing vacation. She felt refreshed and refueled for about one week. She was telling her readers that she needed a break, but felt guilty because she just had a vacat...
03rd November 2008
Which of the following situations send you over the edge? You ask your child to do something three times and he is still not listening. Your four year old is having a complete melt down over something you see as insignificant. You’ve had a long day a...
27th October 2008
Fast forward 20 years; your children might be 20, 25 or maybe even 35. It doesn’t really matter how old they are. What matters is whether or not they will learn the important family values that you wish to impart. Now I understand that, as mothers, w...
26th September 2008
When many of us think of self-care, we immediately think about all the things we should be doing for ourselves but aren’t. We remind ourselves we should exercise or start eating healthy. We might even think about getting out to enjoy a cup of coffee w...
22nd September 2008
The call came at 8:10 in the morning. “Mom, I forgot my baseball stuff in the car. Can you please bring it to me now?” My teenager had spent the night with his friend and inadvertently forgot to prepare himself for the baseball summer camp he was he...
24th August 2008
Many moms have a hard time learning the essential art of saying no. It is such a struggle that Mary M. Byers has devoted an entire book, “How to Say No and Live to Tell About It”, and has branded herself as “The No Queen”. Sometime between the a...
22nd July 2008
Do you ever feel like you are going in a hundred different directions but not really going anywhere? Maybe you run upstairs to do something, only to forget what you were going to do. You start doing something else, and then abandon that project when you...
07th April 2008
It takes hard work to be a confident woman, but the rewards are well worth the effort it takes. Imagine being able to go through your day feeling good about who you are and the decisions you make. Picture yourself laughing at your mistakes instead of be...
26th March 2008
Children have long lists of toys they want and moms have long “to do” lists. If we can set aside our money fears, it’s exciting to listen to our children talk about all the cool toys they want for their birthdays or other special occasions. Do you...
06th March 2008
With so many tasks fighting for our attention, it’s no wonder we struggle with feeling productive. For most women, it’s important to us that we feel productive, and we usually measure our productivity by our output – how much do we get done in a gi...
14th February 2008
There has been a time in my life when relationships were a source of great discontentment in my life. I worked around negative people. I didn’t have a lot of the kinds of friends I wanted. I was in a marriage that was lonely and filled with conflict....
24th January 2008
For as long as I can remember, people have asked the question “Are you a leader or a follower?” There was an attempt to categorize or label people based on their ability to lead other people. What if I were to tell you that everyone is a leader, eit...
08th November 2007
A few months ago I was contacted to speak to a local women’s association group. In the context of our communications, I was asked if I had a book, and if so, would I offer a discount? I assumed the client wanted a discount off my speaking services if ...
25th September 2007
Everywhere I turn, moms are in transition. Of course, the most obvious transition many of us are facing right now is back to school. But transitions are all around us, some of which are more recognizable than others. These are some of the transitions t...
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