life Archives - x.kristen

‘movie poster’ family core values

so we’ve had family core values for a while now. i’ve made mugs and mini posters for the house before – and some have stuck for sure – the number of times i’ve hard my son tell me to ‘choose…

it’s all part of the plot.

i watched a tik tok recently – i went back to try and find it and there’s a ton of them now so i don’t recall the og one i saw – but basically it said: if something ‘bad’ happens…

#LifeAtATen

so, i know that when i die and go to heaven – my version of heaven will be me in a super cute cafe, with headphones on, in front of a laptop learning some new software, using it to do…

doing something hard because i didn’t want to.

the other day i decided that i should go swimming at 5:30 in the morning. let me first say 100% of this sounded like an awful idea. it’s dead of winter, i’m off my early morning schedule and the idea…

re-obsessed with the 7 habits of highly effective people

i’m currently re-obessed with the seven habits of highly effective people. i say re-obessed because this is my second round of obsession with sir steven covey’s masterpiece on how to live life as an optimal human. (side, bar, i know…

my ‘top 5’ to do list items for the day.

try as i might to use online task management tools (i’ve tried them all – google keep, wrike, basecamp, evernote, even the notes app on my phone) it just never sticks. i’m an old fashioned paper and pen gal. to…

i love my ex-husband.

i just gotta say – i f’ing love my ex husband. while we were so, sooooo terrible at being married – we’ve ended up amazing friends. supportive, loving and the very best of co-parents i think two people could ever…

the disciple of waking up at 5am. [family core value: hard to kill]

the pandemic has f’ed with my sleep schedule. i used to be a die hard 5 am’er – in fact, because i had a dope ass alarm clock app that listened to you sleep and had you wake up when…

from fired to founder to franchisor. (aka THE TEN SPOT® story)

i was 24 years old and i had just been fired – for the SECOND time. those are two very fun stories – which i sadly don’t have time to get into right now but bottom line was, i was…