Social Distancing is Like the First Days With a Newborn

Social Distancing is Like the First Days With a Newborn

We have experienced two big shifts in our lives in the last year. The first was the surprise of a lifetime learning that we were expecting a child in September of 2019. Both are physically and emotionally isolating. But during this time of a pandemic, we are all able to connect with one another through this shared experience.

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Why Lifelong Learners Will Thrive on the Other Side of a Pandemic

Why Lifelong Learners Will Thrive on the Other Side of a Pandemic

Working in the same space as your partner may be totally foreign for you. For us though, it isn’t. At least it isn’t now. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we found ourselves working from the same office years ago, even though we were running different businesses.

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10 Questions for Your End of Year Reflection

10 Questions for Your End of Year Reflection

The #10yearchallenge recently took social media by storm. So of course, we had to participate.

If you are unfamiliar with this challenge, let’s catch you up. On social media, people share a photo from 2009 next to a current photo from 2019. These photos were often captioned with a story of growth & learning ...or maybe just point out some terrible style.

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Q1 Goals Check-In

Q1 Goals Check-In

At the beginning of 2019, we shared our goals for the year over on our I Do, We Do podcast. Since its now April, we thought we would share our progress to these goals. Before we jump in to grading ourselves on our progress… let’s do a quick storytime. In December, we went away on a little staycation/retreat and focused in our goals. We laid out some really great plans for our goals. They all had target dates, detailed action items-- so we were ready to rock 2019.

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Why we're lifetime accountability partners

Why we're lifetime accountability partners

Setting goals is really easy to do, but taking action on those goals and seeing them through is the hard part. That’s where most people struggle. One way to work through that struggle is to have someone who can hold you accountable. Ashley is that person for me and I am for her. We have given each other permission to hold the other accountable. We can call each other out and remind the other about our goals together or the goals we hold separately.

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