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Feb 12, 2018
3 min

The Love Yourself Dare: Part II Give Yourself What You Need

Point to Ponder: How well do you love, appreciate and value yourself and the important roles you play within your universe? Last weekend during our San Diego Retreat we welcomed a guest yoga instructor from San Diego. His name is Dat Nugyn. I have taken Dat's yoga classes for over two years and not only is his yoga instruction unique, challenging, rejuvenating, and inspiring, but he’s incredibly funny, intuitive and wise. His timing is impeccable too, as just when I begin tak

Feb 5, 2018
2 min

The Love Yourself Dare: Part I Receiving Compliments

Point to Ponder: How well do you receive compliments? When I sat down in January to plan what to write this month, the obvious thought was love. As I contemplated different actions we could take to demonstrate love, the one that continued to stir in my head was the ability to receive love, in the way of fully embracing and receiving a verbal compliment. Over the past eleven years I've written about and encouraged receiving and believing a verbal compliment, so this is not a n

Jan 29, 2018
4 min

What Are Your iGnite Goals & Why?

Point to Ponder: What are your specific first Quarter iGnite goals? Since moving to San Diego two and a half years ago I have not purged, and last week I did just that! It wasn’t a full purge, as that will take several weekends, however it was two trash cans full of headless Barbie dolls, broken trucks, and a random assortment of used and abused toys. As you can imagine, it felt incredible! While going through the kids toys and sorting through their Mt. Everest size pile of s

Jan 21, 2018
2 min

Create a Life of Enjoyment

Point to Ponder: How are you enjoying life? Create a life of enjoyment. I'm certain 'enjoying everyday life' is something everyone, including myself wants to experience. What a beautiful thought and ongoing mission, ambition and goal for 2018. But how, in the midst of difficult times, frustrating moments, daily struggles, failure, deadlines, delays, illness, traffic, unmet expectations, divorce, betrayal, loss of friendship, challenge and even death do we do that? Accordin

Jan 14, 2018
2 min

Pace Yourself Forward

Point to Ponder: In determining what you want in 2018, are you letting your past hold you back or inspire you? Are you pacing yourself or are you going full-throttle? Once upon a time I ran a marathon and several half-marathons and, once upon a time I could run five, seven and ten miles with ease. Now, two children and at least seven years later, running three miles is a challenge. Because I love the serenity of a jog, one of my 2018 goals is to run three miles with ease. So,

Jan 7, 2018
3 min

Why You Should Sift Through the Unnecessary and Prepare Your Soil

Point to Ponder: Overtime, what unnecessary habits, attitudes, thoughts, relationships and words have you formed that are not in alignment with your 2018 desires, and therefore are preventing you from being your best? I love the New Year, but to be honest I get very overwhelmed by everything I want to change and accomplish. In my pre-children and idealistic twenties (and even early-thirties), I thought that in order to achieve my desires and goals, it was as simple as writing

Dec 31, 2017
2 min

Celebrate 2017 First!

Point to Ponder: What successes, accomplishments and blessings did you experience in 2017? A few days ago while driving on 5th street in Austin I found myself laughing at El Arroyo's (a long-standing and popular Tex-Mex restaurant) always comical outdoor sign, which read, "All I gained in 2017 was weight". While fortunately I didn't gain weight, I felt the similar sentiments--that 2017 was just an "okay" year and I'm eager to give it a swift kick good-bye. Then, as I thought

Dec 17, 2017
2 min

It's Never too Late to Start a New Holiday Tradition

Point to Ponder: What are your holiday traditions? We love holiday traditions! They warm our hearts, make us all giddy inside and feel like a kid again. In the event you're looking to add more festivities to your holiday or maybe even start a new holiday tradition with your family and friends, here are some San Diego favorites, with some within minutes of Del Sur! Merry Christmas and Happy Traditions! Living Nativity at Horizon Church Be transported back in time and experienc

Dec 17, 2017
2 min

Our Favorite Austin Holiday Traditions

Point to Ponder: What are your holiday traditions? We love holiday traditions! They warm our hearts, make us all giddy inside and feel like a kid again. Recently, iGnite Team Leader, Sarah Hamilton collected our favorite and local holiday traditions and we want to share them with you. So, in the event you're looking to add more festivities to your holiday or maybe even start a new holiday tradition with your family and friends, we want to share our favorite and local Christma

Dec 4, 2017
4 min

Sugar Cookies, Hot Chocolate & the Secret to Christmas Success

Point to Ponder: Is love for yourself and others your guide and focus throughout the Christmas season or does stress, frustration and fatigue take over? On Wednesday evening the kids (6 and 4 yrs) and I attended a “Kick-off to Christmas” church event. The night began with filling shoe boxes with children’s toys, school supplies and hygiene items for an organization called Samaritan’s Purse, followed with eating sugar cookies, drinking hot chocolate, eating sugar cookies and

Nov 27, 2017
4 min

Lateral to the Top

Point to Ponder: Do you appreciate your lateral moving moments or are you trying to fast forward and push past them? Last week I watched an inspiring television show called Running Wild with Bear Grylls. If you are unfamiliar, Bear is a British adventurer known for his TV series called Man vs Wild as well as other wilderness survival shows. As it relates to Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear takes celebrities and athletes out and into the wilderness where he relocates them i

Nov 19, 2017
3 min

Gratitude Brings Happiness

Point to Ponder: Do you pursue happiness through gratitude? Happiness--the slippery fleeting emotion that people are constantly in pursuit of finding and holding onto. On July 4, 1776, the pursuit of happiness, along with life and liberty, is among what our founding fathers identified in the Declaration of Independence as our unalienable right that has been given to all human beings by their Creator. Happiness is indeed pursued in a myriad of ways and changes throughout our

Nov 12, 2017
3 min

Gratitude in Motion

Point to Ponder: Who and what are you grateful for? Over the past few weeks the sun sets in San Diego have been spectacular--like a paint explosion in the sky. They have been so incredibly stunning that around 4:45 p.m., when the sun begins to set, the kids and I dash outside and run down the street for a perfect view of surprise in the sky. On occasion, a hot air balloon or two will float amongst the setting sun and holy cow....that's double the magic! For sure this special

Nov 5, 2017
3 min

Pause & Restoration

Point to Ponder: Do you pause and allow time for restoration? In addition to Thanksgiving, Christmas and July 4th, my favorite day of the year was last night: daylight savings. I treasure a good sleep and I love going to bed knowing I have an extra hour. There’s also something grounding about an earlier sunset, the seasonal chill in the air, warm crock pot meals and Mother Nature providing shorter days to encourage a slower pace of life. For me, this leads to less distraction

Oct 29, 2017
4 min

Refuse to Miss Your Life

Point to Ponder: What can you reduce or shift that will allow you to be more present for your family, your well-being and the life you desire to live? Lately, I feel like all I ever say is “no”, at least to my family. I’ve heard myself say “no” to Durant’s continual request to go fishing, as well as “no” to Malaine’s ongoing ask to ride her bike around the block. I’ve said “no” to taking a much-needed yoga class and “no” to something as simple as just spending time together a

Oct 22, 2017
2 min

How An Enthusiastic "Yes!" Leads to More Fun for Everyone

Point to Ponder: Which do you say more often: "yes" or "no" ? Have you ever thought about the power of the words “yes” and “no” and how they affect your ability to have fun, be fulfilled and enjoy life more? I never had until my mid-twenties, when I co-owned a non-competitive gymnastics business. Our gymnasts ranged from toddlers to preteens, and our goal was for each child to leave feeling enthusiastic about gymnastics and their experience, regardless of what they accomplish

Oct 15, 2017
3 min

Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously?

Point to Ponder: Do you take yourself too seriously? Have you ever felt like you were carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? A time when you felt as though everyone was counting on you and while you were doing everything humanly possible, you just couldn’t get it all done. The result was feeling you had disappointed yourself, inconvenienced others or revealed that you were actually human and couldn’t pull rabbits out of a hat. A few weeks ago I found myself exper

Oct 8, 2017
4 min

Get Your Giggle On

Point to Ponder: Are you laughing enough? With "Keeping Things Fun" being last week's journal topic and our spirit-filled focus throughout October, during class we talked a lot about having fun, what it looks like for each of us and whether or not our fun buckets are being filled in each are of our life: marriage, mom, friendships/relationships, career, volunteer, etc. The outcome is that fun comes in a range of ways and can vary with each life season. For some, fun is cooki

Oct 1, 2017
4 min

Keep Things Fun

Point to Ponder: Where in your life are you having fun and where in you life do you need to have more fun? During July, while leading two back-to-back iGnite Escapes in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and having the time of my life, I had an epiphany: throughout the past several months my 'fun' core value was violated. This probably sounds whacky, so let me explain. Several years ago through the professional coaching of iGnite member Martha Lynn Mangum, I learned my core values. They a

Sep 18, 2017
3 min

Is Your Attitude Worth Catching?

Point to Ponder: Is your attitude worth catching? I often times think about the song I learned as a child in Sunday School, “O Be Careful, Little Eyes”, with hand gestures to complement each verse. This song encourages us to guard our eyes and ears and control our mouths, hands, and feet. As a child, I didn’t understand the depth of the song, but as an adult, I get it. What we say, what we look at and listen to, along with the places we choose to go, all have consequences and