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Video Sunday: Guys’ Night In, Girls’ Night Out

Jude and I are holding the fort down while Claudia hits the town with a friend to hear an author speak. Also, we have only two month of 2012 left! Now’s the time to look ahead to next year and decide what you want it to…

October 28, 2012
Personal Growth

Short-term Goals Done Right

Short-term goals are the key to getting to you to your bigger long-term goals and dreams. They can be the catalyst that gets you off your bum in planning mode and starting to actually do something which brings momentum and inspiration. The length of the type…

September 24, 2012
Personal Growth

Our Family’s Mission Statement

A little while back, Claudia and I decided on a mission statement for our family. We did this because we wanted a statement of purpose for our family and for our home. We also wanted something that would guide the actions of our family, spell…

September 20, 2012
Personal Growth

Your Subconscious Mind Needs a Guide

Every morning, I wake up and see something on my ceiling. As the sleep clings to my eyes, my eyelids flip open and closed. The image above me dances through my sleepy mind and is contorted as it turns into strange dreams. The something…

September 19, 2012
Miscellany

Month in Review for August 2012

This is a brief recap of the month of August for us and some of what’s been going on in our lives. It’s been an exciting time with a lot happening all at once. Summer came to a close, we were prepping for a…

September 5, 2012
Personal Growth

Loose Change Didn’t Get Us To Switzerland

When Michael and I got married, our dream was to honeymoon in Switzerland. We didn’t have much money, so we decided to save all of our change in Mason jars till the wedding and “Hopefully” we thought, “It will be enough to buy us plane tickets…

August 16, 2012
Miscellany

How We’re Refocusing rise365

Well, here it is! We’ve been talking about this for a little while now and we finally got things tightened up and in place. We originally created rise365 as a source of accountability as we pursued massive change in our own lives. We knew the…

August 6, 2012
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We Just Got Started, Fear And All

When we started rise365, we didn’t know what we wanted the site to ultimately become. However, we did know the direction we wanted to head and what our first step was: To get started with our first post! Fortunately, as we took those first…

July 23, 2012