Let's get real for a moment.

How often do we set ourselves up to fail? How often do we base our success off of how much it looks like someone else's success? How often do we give ourselves goals that we can not possibly achieve and then are constantly let down by our performance or disappointed in ourselves?

The more we set ourselves up to fail, and see our efforts as not enough, the more we will experience the devastating side effects of emotional and physical burnout. 

Unrealistic exp...

"How did you get from there to here?"

My my husband at the time finished up Grad school and took a job with Mercedes Benz Financial Services in Michigan, leaving myself and our then three children in Arizona to finish up the preschool year and attempt to sell our home (in the middle of the 2008 recession). Our kids were ages two and a half, one and newborn, so it was a crazy six months! I taught preschool out of our garage, which we had converted into a classroom. Prior to that I had ...