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Have you ever left the house by yourself, even for a short time, only to come home to find your PTSD/TBI husband having a tizzy, or in a bad mood, and neither of you really know why? I didn’t know it at the time, but in 2008 the clues were staring right at me, smack-dab…
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“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into smaller jobs.” ~Henry Ford Before we can move on to the ‘what-the-hell-do-I-do-with-this-massive-to-do-list-that-makes-me-want-to-cry” portion of the Extreme Do-Over Experiment, I have to tell you that nothing I share from this point forward will work unless you learn (or re-learn) some basic rules. Let’s review the first two…
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Before you get too far into the Extreme Do-Over Experiment, I need you to think about this: You know how you step into a room in your house and find it is a total mess? Perhaps you made the mess. Perhaps other people did. Either way, it’s got to be cleaned and organized. You decide…
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“Never, never, never give up.” ~Winston Churchill I call bullshit, Sir Churchill. Society has conditioned us to think we would be a failure if we gave up. Let’s look at what the dictionary tells us: Definitions and examples of “give up“ To surrender: The suspects gave themselves up. To devote (oneself) completely: gave herself up…
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Before we get too far into this experiment, I think it is important to let you know what this experiment isn’t. What you can expect (or not expect) from the Extreme Do-Over Experiment series: I needed a life management system that served as a blueprint to take back control of my life, but it needed…
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You keep your head down and you hustle and hustle, and you wake up one day and wonder: How did I get here? ~Queen Latifah We hustle and hustle…but sometimes we get lost in it and we wake up one day wondering, “How did I get here?” Or, we may ask ourselves, “How did 30+…
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Each month in the Extreme Do-Over Experiment I’ll be sharing a special focus. The first month is about Taking Stock of our lives. The first few weeks of my shared experiment will cover the basics and foundation of making the Do-Over work. On my last post I explained how I learned to identify the roles…
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Each month in the Extreme Do-Over Experiment I’ll be sharing a special focus. The first month is about Taking Stock of our lives. The first few weeks of my shared experiment will cover the basics and foundation of making the Do-Over work. I spent 8 months creating this method. I had a lot of false…
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Today is the first day of the “Extreme Do-Over Experiment” series. What is the Extreme Do-Over Experiment, you ask? I’ll explain: One cold December morning in 2011, I woke up and realized that my life wasn’t going as planned, despite how hard I worked. I wished for this one thing: Can I please have a…
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Do you wish you were happier? Would you like to figure out ways to find contentment and control in your daily life? Perhaps the duties of being a mom, wife or caregiver, or the stresses at work are consuming you. Or maybe you’re just not satisfied with the status quo and want to reclaim a…

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