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From Fear to Celebration: 5 Strategies to Transform Your Approach to Rejection

September 16, 2018December 11, 2017 by Lisa A. Nalbone

Fear of rejection and putting yourself into the world limits your ability to learn and grow. Celebrating rejection, instead of fearing it, transforms the person experiencing rejection from a victim of others choices, to the courageous chooser of opportunity. You can learn to change your mindset about fearing rejection to celebrating rejection.

As with most celebrations, celebrating rejection will make you happier. And if it still sounds impossible, there are at least five practical steps that you can take to get better at being rejected. You can choose to transform your relationship with rejection to allow yourself to bravely pursue your goals as you ask hard questions, try new things, and do what matters.

Book Review: Slow Homeschooling by Milva MacDonald

January 24, 2018July 30, 2017 by Lisa A. Nalbone

Slow Homeschooling:Essays About Mindful Homeschooling

This is a small but mighty book. Just 64 pages, it contains a powerful collection of 23 essays that touch upon a range of issues that parents grapple with as they explore the decision about homeschooling, and more issues that arise once they start on their homeschooling journey.

Take a look at the table of contents:

Solstice End of Year Reflection: What’s Really Important?

September 17, 2018December 22, 2016 by Lisa A. Nalbone

This has been a hard year.

My mom was diagnosed with ALS in February, followed by two feeding tube surgeries, a move back east and rapidly progressing symptoms. One sibling had a bad fall with complications. Another sibling needed a brain surgery and still needs a different surgery.

And yesterday, the longest night of the year, I’d started my year-in-review that often morphs into me beating myself up about all the things I didn’t accomplish that I intended to, like:

only 16 blog posts/28 newsletters instead of 52
no speaking gigs
just a few books sold and no marketing plan
still piles and piles of mama’s files to be gone through
my messy, messy house

The list of what didn’t get done, or done well, could go on and on.

Travel and Learning: 12 Topics to Take Beyond Textbooks

September 15, 2018July 12, 2015 by Lisa A. Nalbone

Breathing in the air and aromas, walking in the footsteps or examining firsthand what I have studied or read about is thrilling. I get goosebumps just remembering the first time I: stood under the towering, majestic Redwoods I’d studied in Botany had a slow meaningful conversation in Spanish about education with a woman in the … Read moreTravel and Learning: 12 Topics to Take Beyond Textbooks