Tag: inspiration

  • The Hundred Day Challenge

    The Hundred Day Challenge

    Popular wisdom (aka “some guy in a bar” and/or “the internet”) holds that it takes about three weeks (21 days) to form or break a habit. This is simply not true. To begin with, the three-week timeline is simply a rule of thumb – there are many variables and some habits take far longer to…

  • Bonus Day – Take Inspired Action

    Bonus Day – Take Inspired Action

    Yes, we have completed our official tour through Fiona Ferris’s 30 Chic Days, but she includes a “bonus day” at the end, so here’s one last post. How appropriate that this falls on New Year’s Eve as we pause at the threshold of a new year. On this final entry, Mme. Ferris encourages us to “take…

  • Day 21 – Inspire Yourself

    For Day 21 of the 30 Chic Days, Mme. Ferris makes the suggestion to “inspire yourself.” This one intrigued me – and I think you’ll like it, too. Simply put, she’s suggesting that we look inward for motivation. As she puts it, doing this can be the difference between “pushing yourself towards something versus being pulled…