To help motivate and reward my daughter for doing yoga with me every morning, I've made her a special chart which she decorated. Each week she checks off all the postures learned and practiced that week. I've randomly highlighted boxes throughout the chart. Whenever she checks a yellow box, she gets a reward from me! We ...

Yesterday I wrote about Julia doing Hatha Yoga with me. This is how we're doing it: In the yoga program I'm following, from Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness Program, there are 28 yoga postures to do every day. When I do them all, it takes me just a little over an hour. (There are also shorter condensed versions as well.) Since ...

I have a lot of trouble staying consistent with anything, especially exercising. But I've stumbled onto a trick that is helping me: my oldest daughter. Julia is not flexible at all. She's also very tall with long legs, and is becoming a young lady. Since I had started doing Hatha Yoga again, which gives one a lot of flexibility, I ...

Previously, I wrote several posts about the beauty of mandalas. This year I decided I wanted to keep track of the highs and lows of my energy level each day of each month, on a chart which reflected the entire year. I'm also tracking other things such as general diet and sugar intake, when I exercise, when I'm fighting a cold, etc. I ...

There are so many pivotal moments in our lives when we have to make important decisions. And even more times when we make not-so-important decisions. I'm working with the decision to return to full-time homeschooling right now. I'm taking my time with this. And it's reminding me of several invaluable tools I've used and ...

Sometimes I need more than just a chart to really motivate me. So I have to spend time thinking of what would motivate me, and come up with a trick or tool to do it. Here are several I'm trying this year, to help me reach my New Year's goals--I hope you like these ideas and find them useful. These motivational tricks can be used for ...

Just like children, I love goal charts, and making marks or putting up stars to see my progress. I like to keep my goals visual, on the wall, where I will see them every day. So the first trick I'm doing to motivate myself for this year's New Year's goals, is to make a chart to track my progress through the year. I decided that I'd ...