BWell Blog

The best athletes in the world train together. Training with fellow like-minded individuals enables them to create a community where they share best practices and habits, pushing beyond personal limitations.  The same is true of the most influential and successful leaders I know.  What makes these athletes and leaders world-class? There are five corresponding traits I recognize in both.

Mindset +...

“There aren’t enough hours in a day,” a common reference in our culture to the constant chase for more time.  There is and always will be 24 hours in a day, so how is it that there are some people who have figured out how to be more productive than others, reaching greater levels of achievement and fulfillment? What do they know? Here’s what I’ve learned.

Time is fixed, a finite resource, however...

Am I creative?  I use to struggle with this question.  I can’t even properly sew on a button. I’m not creative because I don’t play music or sing or dance, I don't paint, draw, sew, or make things.  This is the message I told myself for many years. I believed you were either born creative or meant for something else. It wasn’t until a trying time in my life I realized, creativity was inside me all...

Our thoughts are powerful.  There is much to learn from how we think, new thoughts we create and old ones so familiar to us we are no longer aware they exist.  Our ability to impact our thinking brings hope to where we want to grow and go in life. There are a few things to understand about our thoughts before we can know how best to harness the power they have over us.  

Our thoughts greatly infl...

When is the last time you felt stuck?  Out of routine, out of habit, out of hope in what once was and is no longer.  While I imagine it’s not entirely impossible, we can’t rely on a random wave of motivation to turn the tide.  Time doesn’t always allow the luxury of waiting for luck to strike.

I’m someone who intentionally avoids looking in the rear-view mirror too often, avoiding regret, the cou...

We became a single income family overnight; my mom was alone raising 4 girls. The hardest times were felt after the separation.  I admire my parents; we never knew how little we had.  Later in life I learned how often they went without in order to provide for us.  When I was two, they moved us to the small logging town of Drain and opened up a True Value Hardware store. My dad was an aspiring entr...

I’ve fallen behind on my 31 days of writing project and find myself WAY past the deadline.  Such is life. As I approach day 90ish, I’ve adjusted my goal with hope to just complete the challenge--whenever that may be.  It’s my experience, right? I will finish when I finish.

I love the idea of documenting the simple things about life right now and look forward to looking back someday.  While it may...

I often think I over text message, this is mostly how I communicate throughout the day with my family and friends.  I appreciate the convenience of quick dialogue via text messaging; however, I’m afraid it deters me from picking up the phone to have a more meaningful conversation every now and then.  And, of course, the ease of texting increases the opportunity for dialogue so it’s constant and di...

The more I experience life, the more I am reminded of the ways in which I am blessed.  One of my favorite mantras, I repeat often, is “what we focus on, expands”.  I believe how we think dictates how we feel, and how we feel influences how we choose to behave.  When I am choosing to see what is good, I find myself creating more to be grateful for in life.

Being grateful isn’t always easy for me. ...

We say we will never be anything like ours. We commit at least a decade of our lives doing everything possible to avoid becoming a replica of where we came from, of becoming just like our mother. We rebel, we deny, then we get as close as we can as we try and prove how we are different. Until we become mothers, we have no idea how it can happen. Then, we have our own and it becomes impossible to i...