Tag: Personal Development

Have you ever felt completely frustrated as you scroll through Facebook or Instagram or, or, or…pick your social media platform? There’s plenty to choose from.  And it just seems like everyone else is a little more clear on what they are doing, have honed their message a little tighter, and have risen faster in their […] READ MORE

I wanted to repost something I wrote over three years ago because the truths of it have come back around for me presently. Does that ever happen to you? Do you write something in a journal or on a sticky note and find it years later and it transports you back to the very moment […] READ MORE

Have you ever experienced the frustration of accomplishing a goal, only to find that 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year later you are right back where you started? Maybe you resolved last year to lose 10 pounds.  Perhaps you set a goal to exercise 3 times a week. After 1 week of that, you […] READ MORE

For most of my life, I didn’t understand the power of personal growth. I didn’t work on developing myself as a human being and got pretty adept at making excuses for my faults and failures. Blame and shame were a part of my norm. But at the age of 25, I had a life-altering experience […] READ MORE

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Remembering painful losses can take you and I down a couple different roads, depending on two main factors – the healing we’ve allowed to take place in our hearts since the loss and secondly, where our Hope is anchored. The Road of Darkness Remembering can take us […] READ MORE

What was it that compelled Nathan and I to walk away from everything we’d built for 7 years to start over in this industry with a new company? I never dreamed this would be my story, but I’ve come to see that living a life of faith is rarely predictable, has numerous unexpected twists and […] READ MORE

I look at the smiling faces of my little people as I post their pics on a Facebook, and as their mom, only I know the depth of the joy, and also the struggles in each of them. I look in their eyes and I know…just like only you know your kids or those closest […] READ MORE

Hi friends, Nathan and I are super excited to share our hearts with you today and about a new adventure in the Oates’ house.  As you know, we love wellness and helping people find the “pieces” of their healthy lifestyle puzzle. For the last 7 years, we have been intensely invested in a specific nutritional company as […] READ MORE

We call Friday nights “Friday Family Fun Night.”  It’s a little tradition we started years ago with the kids.   On this particular Friday night we decided to go shoot some hoops at the park.  The weather is just perfect here in Tennessee and it was the perfect night to be outdoors.   After about […] READ MORE

Commitment…can be a scary word. We tend to associate it with failure…times when we said we were going to do something, but then neglected to follow through with it.   At the heart of any success that has ever been achieved is a resolve or commitment to do it.   We often set ourselves up […] READ MORE