The Brilliant Balance Blog

If I asked you the question, “What do you want?” I wonder what you’d say. Would your list be long or short? Would you aim high or play it safe? Would you laugh at the audacity of your desire? Think for a moment. What do you want? A better job? More income? An organized home? More confidence? A […]

Craft stores are like a foreign country to me. They’re wildly interesting to visit, and I’m captivated by the endless treasures their aisles hold, but while there, I am a stranger in a strange land. This week, I made a forced expedition to Joann Fabrics to buy sewing notions for a project my child has to […]

Another January is nearly gone, and with it, your belief that life can be better than it is today may be fading a bit. You’ve spent this month: scribbling resolutions on the backs of napkins and receipts, filling your shopping cart with organizing bins and binders, buying journals and daily planners, vowing to become more of something […]

An open letter to myself (and anyone else who needs to hear this): You are doing enough. Truly, you are. December is not trying to bring you down. And you are not the only one trying to hold it all together in the name of providing a memorable holiday experience for everyone around you. But if you keep […]

Today’s Audio Blog can be found here:   As a working mother, at this time of year I feel like I’m staring at the GPS of my life and it’s stuck on that all-too-familiar screen that simply reads, “Recalculating.”   With new school schedules, sports schedules, activity schedules, meal times, bus times, drop off and […]

Today’s blog is an AUDIO post – I’m going to use this format to make it easier for you to consume content on the go.   Definitely let me know if this is a format you like – if it is, I’ll do more of it…     Are you worried you’ll never reach the […]

Do you want to know where it all started?? How Life Design Boot Camp came to be?    Last summer while I was eating dinner on the patio with my family, my husband randomly said,   “Here’s a good question! Where do you think we’ll all be in 10 years?”   I looked across the […]

I just wrapped up a few days in Austin with a group of fellow entrepreneurs. On the way to lunch one afternoon, I grabbed a ride with someone I didn’t know really well yet. We were making small talk as he drove, both just glad to be in the AC (because Texas heat is no […]