by Bonnie Pond | Mar 25, 2018 | Lifestyle, Make Your Life Count Community, Motivation, Self-Help, Women
Procrastination. . . You know how it goes. You say you’re going to write a book. . . or finish your degree . . . find a better job. . . or any one of a hundred things you’ve talked about doing. Except that you keep procrastinating. . .and putting it off....
by Bonnie Pond | Aug 20, 2017 | Lifestyle, Make Your Life Count Community, Motivation, Self-Help, Women
What’s your Big Dream? Will you climb the stone steps up to the Parthenon in Athens? Hike the Appalachian Trail? Are you going to write a best-selling novel and make a pile of money? Overcome your fear of heights and learn to skydive? You’re going to do it...
by Bonnie Pond | Mar 28, 2017 | Lifestyle, Make Your Life Count Community
I leaned back in a comfy easy chair at the bookstore sipping my latte and nibbling on a warm blueberry scone, casually chatting with my husband. “Aaaah, life is pretty darn good,” I thought glancing around. My gaze stopped on the man slumped in a nearby...
by Bonnie Pond | Mar 20, 2017 | Jump-Start Creativity, Lifestyle, Make Your Life Count Community
At the risk of sounding like a complete Debbie Downer, we need to talk about something . . . We’ve got problems here in the US — a whole bunch of problems. Issues like hunger. Homelessness. Violence. Big chunks of the population feeling isolated and...
by Bonnie Pond | Mar 8, 2017 | Lifestyle, Make Your Life Count Community, Motivation
My accountability partner, bless her, is working overtime to help me conquer one of my biggest challenges — consistency. She encourages and nudges. Asks tough questions that I don’t want to answer. Holds me to my commitments and deadlines. And never lets...
by Bonnie Pond | Mar 2, 2017 | Lifestyle, Make Your Life Count Community
America’s in big trouble! It’s gotten ugly in the last few months. Really, really ugly. It scares the heck out of me that hate crimes have spiked. Churches, mosques, synagogues, even cemeteries are being vandalized. People are talking past each other in anger and...