Here’s some good news: our flights and hotel rooms are BOOKED for BOSTON 2018! So that’s happening. AND It’s training season. Time to regroup and refocus. Soon enough, the humidity lifts, summer ends, cooler mornings begin. Are you ready? I am ready to get back to setting and chasing down running, fitness, food goals. Who’s with me?! Let's hear it for a 3-step guide to refocusing our …
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Improvement & Imperfection
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." Thank you, Mark Twain. Don't know about you, but I'm reminded on a daily basis that I am human and imperfect. Let's not discuss the green smoothie I spilled all over my boss's freshly detailed Denali, the first day of work, on our way to the courthouse to start a 4-5 week jury trial. "Hi, I'm Helen!" ANYWAY. Perfection will always …
Run Wild, Run Free
Well, hello!! Long-time-no-talk! To catch you up on the past month: I accepted a job at a law firm in Charlotte, tried and won my first jury trial (with my dad), adopted a baby kitten who found me on my back porch, sold my house, said goodbye to my beloved community, moved to Charlotte, spent a week with my family at Kure Beach, and just started my new job today! Meet Cleopatro! Isn't she a …
Big Moves, the Chase Continues
Big changes on the horizon: I’m moving to Charlotte to work for a great law firm, in two weeks! Of course, this means I’m leaving a great law firm, working for my dad, in Goldsboro, the town that raised me and to which I returned wholeheartedly. Thomas Wolfe said “You can’t go home again.” Well, I’m here to tell you that you can and I did. What a rewarding adventure to practice law with my father …
PRIORITY: Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise
A good friend recently told me, “Helen, you need to set sleep goals... and chase them down.” Amen, sister. Look, we all have those times in our lives, in our year, where the going gets tough, the stress piles on and it’s everything you can do to put one foot in front of the other. Me last week. I tried my very first jury trial last week. Both the week leading up to the trial and the week of …