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Always the first thing off your own calendar? These 21 are for you. ( me too! 😂)1. Put your plans on the calendar first ...
09/11/2026

Always the first thing off your own calendar? These 21 are for you. ( me too! 😂)

1. Put your plans on the calendar first instead of what time everyone else leaves you.
2. Don't automatically cancel YOUR thing. Your plans don't always have to be the ones that move.
3. Before saying yes, ask what it replaces. Every yes takes time from something else.
4. Make the reservation. Stop saying "sometime."
5. Keep appointments you make with yourself. Give your plans the same respect you'd give someone else's.
6. Decide when you're free, not when everyone else is.
7. Check your calendar before saying yes. Give yourself a minute before automatically agreeing.
8. Stop volunteering just because you can. Being capable of doing something doesn't make it yours to do.
9. Buy the ticket while you're excited. Sometimes committing is what turns "I'd love to" into "I'm going."
10. Put the girls' weekend on the calendar. Don't wait for everyone to magically have the same free weekend.
11. Take the class, even if you go alone. Someone else's interests doesn’t have to determine what you get to experience.
12. Make the plans instead of "finding time". Time rarely appears on its own. Give the things you want a place to land.
13. Do something you want before the chores are done. The list will still be there when you get back.
14. Let someone else figure it out. You don't always have to be the person who steps in.
15. Schedule the things that matter to you. If it matters, give it actual space instead of hoping you'll fit it in.
16. Don't assume YOUR plans should move. When something changes, look at all the options before sacrificing yours.
17. Give one "someday" thing a date. Pick something you keep talking about and move it onto the calendar.
18. Stop explaining every "no." You don't owe everyone a convincing reason for how you use your time.
19. Ask for help before you're overwhelmed. You don't have to prove you can carry everything yourself.
20. Protect empty space on your calendar. Not every hour needs to be available for something or someone else.
21.Put yourself on the list too. Your life shouldn’t only happen in what time is left.

The best advice I’ve gotten hasn’t always come from the books I expected.I read (and listen to) a LOT of books. Most hav...
09/10/2026

The best advice I’ve gotten hasn’t always come from the books I expected.

I read (and listen to) a LOT of books. Most have something useful in them, but every once in a while, one changes the way I think about something: time, money, business, people, or how I want to live my life.

These are some of those books.

And yes, I snuck a menopause book onto a list that started out mostly about business. 😂 But understanding what was happening in my own body changed a whole lot more than my health.

I love books that make me stop and think, Huh. I’ve never looked at it that way before. Sometimes one idea is enough to change what you do next.

What book changed the way YOU think about something? I’m always looking for my next read. 📚

Save this list for later — and send it to the friend who’s always asking what to read next. ❤️

Little Michele had some VERY definite ideas about what being “old” would look like.Apparently, she didn’t get it all rig...
09/09/2026

Little Michele had some VERY definite ideas about what being “old” would look like.

Apparently, she didn’t get it all right.

I thought by this point in my life most of the big things would be figured out. Career. Family. My body. My own brain. Who I was going to be.

Instead, some things have turned out exactly as I hoped. Some, not even close. Some have been harder than I ever expected.

And some of the best parts of my life weren’t even things I knew to hope for yet. I think that’s what surprises me most about getting older.

How much life there still is to live.

I’ve started things I never expected to start. Learned things about myself at 58 that I wish I’d known at 28. Changed my mind. Gotten stronger. Made new plans. Let go of some old ones.

And there are still SO many things I want to do.

Maybe that’s what I would tell that little girl in the first picture: You don’t have to have your whole life figured out.

And whatever age you think is “too old”? You’re probably wrong about that too.

We’re not finished. We’re still becoming.

Share this with the friend you plan on getting old and definitely not boring with. 😂 And if you’re still becoming too, follow along. I have a feeling there’s a lot more life ahead of us. ♥️

09/07/2026

It still amazes and kind of frustrates me at how easy it was to accept feeling awful when it happened so gradually.

There wasn’t one magical day when I suddenly stopped feeling like myself. I just slowly got used to having less energy, being more tired, and finding things harder that hadn’t always felt so hard. I started wondering if this was simply what getting older felt like.

I know now how easy it is to adjust to a version of your life that doesn’t feel quite right, especially when you’re busy taking care of everything and everyone and just keep going.

I wish that I had listened to my body sooner. I wish I’d known that feeling unlike myself was worth paying attention to and had questioned it. Sometimes we know something is off long before we know what it is.

I’m really glad I eventually listened and started questioning and finding solutions that were right for me.

I am also thankful that perimenopause has become part of the mainstream conversation as it wasn’t when I was going thru it or for the generations before me. I have made sure that my daughters know about the changes that will happen.

If this sounds familiar, tell me in the comments and continue the conversation. This is such an important topic that more women need to talk about! Did you know what was happening when perimenopause started for you, or were you completely caught off guard too?

09/04/2026

Maybe you don’t need a different life. Maybe you just need to notice the one you have.

It’s really easy to see what’s annoying, inconvenient or demanding our attention. I do it too.

But I’m trying to get better at catching myself when I go there and asking: What else is true?

The dishes are annoying AND they mean we had food on our table.

Being needed can be exhausting AND what a gift to have people who still need and want me in their lives.

Both things can be true.

This isn’t about pretending the hard or annoying parts aren’t hard or annoying. It’s about not letting them become the only thing I see.

Because sometimes the difference between “Ugh, my life is so full” and “Wow, my life is so full”…

is perspective. ❤️

Share this with someone who might need the reminder today.

09/04/2026

One day, your family will look for you in these pictures. Make sure you’re there.

I know why you’re hiding. I did it too.

Stand behind one of the kids. Take the picture instead. Delete the one you hate. Promise yourself you’ll get in more photos when you lose the weight or feel better about how you look.

But here’s what I couldn’t see then: The photo I was judging was becoming the memory I would treasure.

Years later, I don’t look at those pictures and see all the things I thought were wrong with me.

I see how little my girls were. I see Doug and me younger. I see the places we went, the things we celebrated, the ordinary Tuesday that I had no idea I’d someday miss.

I see people I love exactly as they were in that moment. And I want to see ME there too.

So yes, take care of yourself. Learn what your body needs. Make whatever changes feel right for you.

But please don’t make being in the picture something you have to earn by looking different first.

Your life is happening now. Hand someone else the camera. Stand in the front for once.

And get in the damn picture. ❤️

Save this for the next time you’re tempted to hide and send it to the woman you love who’s always taking the pictures but never in them.

09/03/2026

Maybe dogs aren’t the inconvenient ones.

Maybe we’ve just forgotten how to stop.

They don’t care that you’re busy. They want the walk.

They don’t care about your to-do list. They want you to sit down beside them.

They somehow know when you’re sad, when you need a little extra loving... and obviously the EXACT moment you start recording something or need to take an important call and they need to bark. 😂

But I think dogs understand something about life better than we do. They’re ridiculously good at being delighted by ordinary things.

You came home? BEST DAY EVER.

A walk? You’d think they won the lottery.

Lying in the grass? Amazing.

Sitting beside someone they love? Enough.

Maybe we should all be a little more like our dogs.
Stop what we’re doing once in a while. Notice who’s beside us. Get ridiculously excited about the little things. And remember that an ordinary day can actually be a pretty great day. ❤️

Happy birthday Wrigley. Thanks for the reminder. 🐾

Dog people — what has your dog taught YOU about life?

09/01/2026

What if that little voice in your head isn’t telling you that your life isn’t enough?

What if it’s telling you that you’re not done yet?

I spent a lot of years assuming I should be satisfied with where I was. And I WAS grateful.

But there was also this little niggling feeling that there was something else for me.

Turns out, there was.

And I’m pretty sure there still is. ◡̈

Maybe that’s the part I’ve finally learned to pay attention to.

So if you’ve had a thought, dream, idea or “maybe someday...” that keeps popping back into your head...

it’s worth paying attention to.

You don’t have to know exactly where it’s going. You don’t even have to have a plan yet. Just don’t keep dismissing it because you already have a good life.

I’m curious, what keeps popping back into YOUR head?❤️

08/31/2026

Ever work all day and still wonder what the heck you actually got done?

Yep. Me too.

I could have 20–30 things on my to-do list, get a ton done, and STILL end the day looking at everything I hadn’t checked off.

Since finding out I have ADHD at 58, so many little things like this are starting to make sense.

So I’m trying things differently.

I still have the giant master list (because apparently I will always have 400 things I want to do 😂), but they don’t all need to be on TODAY’S list. The live in my Todoist Todist app, so I won’t forget them and they don’t clutter my day. When another to do pops in my head ( which it always does), I just add it in the app and keep working. This also means I don’t have sticky notes everywhere.

Today’s list gets 3 things.

I’m also learning that I don’t have to start with the hardest, most boring thing just because someone decided that’s how we’re supposed to do it. Sometimes knocking off something quick or doing something I’m interested in first gets me going.

And if my day doesn’t go the way I planned it in my head? I’m getting much better at changing the plan instead of being annoyed with myself.

Still learning. Still figuring out what works for me.

But this one has been big:

Just because there are things left on my list doesn’t mean I didn’t do enough today. ❤️

Anyone else do this? Tell me in the comments, and send this to the friend whose to-do list is as ridiculous as yours. 😂

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