Pearls & Pumas

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Intentional Planning Part 4: When Good Goals Aren't God Goals Hey Reader, You know what a lot of people don't tell you about goal setting? Not every goal is meant to be pursued. Have you ever chased a goal because it sounded impressive, looked productive, or seemed like what you "should" do, only to discover later it wasn't what God had for you? I know I have. In fact, while writing this post, I literally asked God to remind me of a goal I tried to force...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Creating Realistic Goals Within the Roles You Carry Hey Reader, In my last note, we talked about the danger of planning for the fictional superhuman of ourselves. Because, of course, we're convinced we can seriously do it all, right? Here's the thing y'all, we often create goals surrounding: who we're responsible for, the season we're in, and the real life roles we're walking in. Kind of erratic, don't you think? Trust me, I'm not the one to judge,...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week You Don’t Need Balance… You Need Alignment When You're Planning for the Superhuman Version of Yourself Hey Reader! Last week, we talked about personal mission statements and intentional planning. But this week? We’re diving deeper into how to realistically LIVE it. Because what’s the point of identifying our core values and creating a mission statement for our lives if we don’t create rhythms that help us actually walk them out, right? And where does that...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Intentional Planning Starts with Your Mission Before the planning, the routines, and the goals… there’s a deeper question we often avoid I’m an advocate of intentional planning. And when I say intentional, I don’t just mean my color-coding obsession 😅. I mean focusing on the things that actually move the needle—the “big rocks” and scheduling those first. I first learned about this concept when I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People… and listen, I...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Shift Your Focus, Shift Your Mindset After my husband and I returned from vacation, I went from Zen to Zombie in about three days. The “catch-up” was fierce, friends. FIERCE. 🤯 Backed-up emails, demands from my corporate job, home life, trying to get back into a workout routine… and somewhere in there attempting to feel like a normal human again. I honestly felt like I needed a vacation from my vacation, and we had barely unpacked. (I stand by this concept...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Imposter Syndrome & the Truth About Who You Are It’s been a few weeks, I know. 😟 And if you’re wondering… I’ve had a little case of blinking cursor syndrome. AKA, writing is tough when you don’t know what to write. And when I say there’s been a lot going on, I'm certain you can relate. But in complete honesty, my heart posture has felt a little off. Like I’ve been trying to figure out what God is calling me to do in this next season. And somewhere in that...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Freedom from Overthinking & Fear Have you ever woken up in the morning and still felt the ache from the day before? And when I say ache, I mean that lingering heaviness; the weight of everything you had to do, show up for (with a smile), decide, and mentally carry. Yeah… I had one of those days this week. And it was a hot mess. A hot mess with very little rest, and definitely not my finest of days. I felt pulled in a hundred directions, where everything...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Finding a Better Rhythm When Life Feels Too Full If you know me and we've been friends for a while, then you're in on this little secret: I’m a planner. Not the kind who just writes things down occasionally — I mean the girl who genuinely loves a good planning system. Franklin Covey planner? Check.Planner Pad? Check.Google Keep for those random thoughts I don’t want to forget? Check. Oh, yeah, and the others, but, y'know...) Planning has always been a...

An Encouraging Anchor for Your Week Breaking Free from the Labels You Were Never Meant to Carry Hey Reader, Have you ever believed something about yourself that, looking back now, simply wasn’t true? Maybe it was a label.Maybe it was something someone said years ago.Maybe it was a quiet belief that followed you into adulthood. Today I want to talk about something powerful: demolishing self-limiting beliefs. Growing up, I was known as “the creative one.” Not the smart one.Not the responsible...