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Overcoming Fear

Facing Your Fears ::Week 3 of 3::

by admin on November 17, 2011

You can read week 1 of 3 here.    You can read week 2 of 3 here. Source: thevintageapple.com via Becky on Pinterest   Facing your fear means having courage. Where do we get courage? When we trust in and love God completely. The Bible encourages us with these words… “Do not fear, for I am [...]

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This past Sunday morning, I ran in the Dirty Spokes 10K trail run at a local state park. 10K… 6.2 miles… not something that was new to me. 6.2 miles on the trails — very new. A friend from high school told me about it on Facebook. I thought, “Suuure. I can do this. I’m a runner. I’m an [...]

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Facing Your Fears ::Week 2 of 3::

by admin on November 10, 2011

Last week’s post about Facing your Fear had to do with mind power. {Read the post here.} Today’s post is about using logic and making choices. Like the photo above, which will outweigh the other… your fears, or your dreams? Sometimes our fears prevent us from reaching our dreams. When we face our fear, it [...]

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Consistent Work is Valuable

by admin on October 18, 2011

If you wanted to lose weight, but exercised only once per week, how much quickly would you get to your goal weight? If you are in network marketing, but you only network every so often, how successful will your business be? If you brushed your teeth only once per week, but did it for an hour, [...]

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Hello, all you StrongMother friends! March is knocking on the door… and we’ve chosen our Strong Word of the Month. photo credit Sports is our word for March. With many school tryouts taking place during the spring months and because Lisa and I have made a career life around athletics, we want to hear from you… your [...]

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*On Casual Fridays, we make recommendations about books, websites, movies, etc. We would love to hear your Casual Friday recommendations, too. Is your mother a worrier?  Do you worry?  You need to read this, and send it to the people you love.  My mother’s mother was a worry wart.  There could be a wreck in [...]

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Eutaw (pronounced like Utah) is a very small town just west of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Monday, I went to Eutaw to visit a dear friend.  She’s my favorite fishing buddy and super competitive.  So competitive, she could be the poster child for second born children. Just before Christmas, she found out that she had breast cancer. [...]

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(Quote above by Thomas Edison) In my 10 years of teaching science to high school students, one thing remains true… going to the lab provides a meaningful learning experience (provided the students are prodded, questioned, assisted during the lab experience). Going to the lab also provides an opportunity to teach a life lesson — persistence. Just [...]

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For the past few days I have been working with a student on science problems involving work, power, and force. He has been having difficulty with the math and rearranging the formulas to solve for certain unknown variables. He is an athlete, so I said to him, “You know how when you try something in football or may [...]

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The older I get, the more I try to find ways to exercise that are low/no impact. I have a mountain bike, elliptical machine, total gym, and a Trikke.  Saturday, Nif ran in the 5K Race for the Cure.  AFTER she posted that we would have a Team Strong Mothers next year on our blog [...]

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