Don't get stuck and don't worry.
My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.
I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!
I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.
Fun for me is to take what I learn and teach others in a way that is accessible and applicable in their own lives.
We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action.
I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.
I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.
More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.
Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.
If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.
Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.
Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.
I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.
Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.
Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.
I am inspired by working moms. Mothers who somehow balance the demands of their many lives - professional, familial, personal, and interior - and still manage to make time to have fun and invest in themselves! This is a huge challenge that I look forward to taking on.
This moment is precious and full of great potential: all we have to do is figure out the little changes that will make a huge impact on how wonderful life can be in this moment.
If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.
Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.
You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.
Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.
The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.
We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.
We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.
