The True Path To Success: Find and Conquer Your Energy Zappers

The true path to success isn’t found in filling the pages of the latest planner you bought or in listening to 10 different inspirational podcasts that tell you to feel good about you. As powerful as those strategies appear, the first step to success in anything is to identify and conquer your energy zappers. If you don’t …

2020: The Year To Reset

2020: The Year to Reset Author’s Note: In 2017 I published my book The Notebook Meeting and was sharing the stage at live events with my husband David. Our desire was to continue on the path of our calling to help others grow forward in life and marriage. At the same time, I was looking …

The Story We Write; The Race We Run

The Story We write; The Race We Run For all the chapters of our life’s story, truth is we do not write them alone. I believe we co-author our story with the Lord.  He develops the outline; we choose the details. He shows us the way we should go, the path to take. In faith …

The Year of the Wedding

The Year of the Wedding In December 2018, I posted this to my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stuartthenotebookmeeting/ : On a perfect day in November (after a perfect night before), our Liz married her Neal before the Lord, our families, and loving friends who have become family over the years. As we have prayed that HE might, God …

Going It Alone: The Single Life

Going it alone Well, you aren’t, not really. The single life can be scary, hard, and lonely…or not. For 10+ years I walked through life as a single, divorced parent. For some of that time, my journey was through my own desert, wandering without direction year after year. When I finally made a choice to …

What Season Is It? Tips on Living the Balanced Life

Wait, what season is it? What season are you in? There used to be a time in my life when I measured my worth by the balance I had in my life. You’ve seen the diagrams of the perfect pie of life, with sections dedicated to spirituality, family, health, social life, work, service, etc. with …

Celebrate Your Journey

Celebrating is an important part of the notebook-meeting process! Once you start your meetings, you will be on a journey that will change your life for the better. It is a journey without end…you just travel from one mountaintop moment to the next. You and I were not generally raised to believe we have endless …

Organize Your Life

Hmmm, organize your life. Take a moment to think about that. What does your mind begin to visualize? What exactly do you see? An orderly house; closets with clothes arranged for the season, shoes and purses fitting perfectly on shelves; food for dinner prepared in the fridge; laundry all folded and put away; and kids’ …

Journal Your Path

The title of this book is not The Computer Meeting. No, it is not The Tablet Meeting, either. And no, it is certainly not called The Smartphone Meeting. The title of this book is The Notebook Meeting for a very important reason. Every time you have a notebook meeting, you will write about it in …