Leslie Wilson | ThriveItUp!

Are You a Victim or a Volunteer?

1 Comment 25 January 2012

I finally came up for air yesterday. During the week prior, I worked the Dallas gift market for some good friends of ours who own a showroom. These folks hire friends as their part-time help. We work cheap as a trade off so we can enjoy shopping at the cash & carry wholesale event. The [...]

Marriage

The 1 Thing Your Husband Really Needs

0 Comments 06 January 2012

We read thousands of words about how to improve our marriage. We watch hundreds of chick-flicks, fantasizing that our husband might treat us the same way as the movie star guy with perfect abs, teeth and hair. We have dozens of conversations with girlfriends, griping about how our men fall short. But do we ever [...]

Family, Marriage, Self

Celebrate Everyday Victories

0 Comments 05 January 2012

Everyday victories should be celebrated, well, every single day. After all, it’s the little things in life that bring the greatest joys and pleasures. Case in point: As I thought about what to eat for breakfast this morning, I remembered I bought blueberry bagels at the grocery store yesterday. Knowing I’d enjoy the smell as [...]

Communic8, Self

A Write Resolution–Part II or 20 Things to Jump Start Your Writing Career

2 Comments 03 January 2012

Yesterday, I challenged you to write as part of your New Year’s resolution. Whether you journal, pen poetry, jot down novel plots on a napkin at Starbucks or write your 100,000-word memoir, writing cleanses the mind and soul through introspection and allows you to escape. If you’re serious about trying to publish your work, read [...]

Advice Column, Communic8, Self

A Write Resolution–Part I

5 Comments 02 January 2012

New Year, new you, right? Or, at the very least a fresh start on some aspect of your life as you commit to some change or resolve to try something new. May I suggest writing? Perhaps I’m partial to the career that has brought me great pleasure and pain at various times in the decade-long [...]

Currents, Midlife, Self

11 Resolutions for a Happy New You!

2 Comments 31 December 2011

Now that the succulent taste of your Christmas turkey or roast has faded to a distant memory and your Christmas tree has dropped half of its needles, it’s time to move on to the next in a progression of holidays—celebrating the new year. Even before we attack that ever-increasing To Do list—made longer by the [...]

Currents, Self

Only 10,000 More Papers to Sift Through

0 Comments 30 December 2011

As 2011 reaches its end, I find myself in the mood to reorganize. That’s a good thing. Having this brief flash of bravery makes me wonder what life would be like if only I could banish my pack rat ways for always and eternity! But, no, I won’t allow negativity to worm its way into [...]

Advice Column

Advice to Thrive–How to Handle Someone Who Takes Advantage of Your Generosity

0 Comments 29 December 2011

QUESTION: We (my husband and I) have a single neighbor who relies on us for just about everything: free dog sitting, taxi service, tax advice, insurance advice, medical advice, love life advice, her problem adult children, etc. We truly don’t mind that she drops in at dinnertime just about every night. We’re retired, have no [...]

Self

Are You Happy to See Them or Happy They “Get” to See You?

2 Comments 28 December 2011

Not long ago, while enjoying a delicious Chiloso breakfast with my sister and her boyfriend, CJ, I observed (and commented on) the behavior of some of the other patrons. Some focused completely on their companions—concentrating on their faces, looking them in the eye while they talked, appearing genuinely interested in what their friends had to [...]

Currents, Family

In Limbo between Christmas and New Year’s

2 Comments 27 December 2011

What a weird week this is! The time between Christmas and New Year’s proves strange for several reasons: The kids are off school—which means they’re around all the time. I like that part, but it makes completing work next to impossible. Maybe that’s why my husband heads to the office by 7:30 . . . [...]