Is your life busy? Are there enough hours in the day to get everything done on your to-do list? The conversation often goes like this: How are you? Fine What are you up to? So much. I'm so busy. Busy, busy seems to be a mantra I hear all the time from women. It almost begins to sound like a badge of honor. But do we really need to be so busy? Why do we fill our schedules with so many activities? Sometimes I say yes to things because: I don't want to disappoint someone I'm afraid of missing out I want to keep up with the crowd I know it will be …

For many years, I cultivated the habit of rising early to exercise on my treadmill. I didn't think about it. I just did it. But along the way, stress interfered, and my habit got thrown to the wayside. Instead of getting up early, I stayed in bed. Over time, I almost forgot. Instead, I gained twenty-four pounds and felt sluggish. My clothes didn't fit anymore. This didn't happen overnight. But slowly my lack of discipline showed up in ways I didn't like. According to the dictionary, a habit is 'a settled or regular tendency or pract…

It's Five Minute Friday when I join up with other writers. We receive a one-word prompt and get to write for five minutes flat.  Our word for today is WOMAN . START I'm glad I'm a woman. Some cultures don't value and celebrate women. But how thankful I am to be free to be who God created me to be; a woman. I cherish my friendships with other women. I have many lifelong friends. And along the way, I've developed relationships with women from a variety of backgrounds. I've even grown to know and care about many blogging friends, and…