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Noble Purpose Newsletter

My Super Spoiled Sixteen: TV Doesn’t Lie

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “This is a total nightmare. The flowers are the wrong shade of papaya, the dwarf missed his entrance cue and now the band’s security detail is blocking my entrance to the stage.” The First Lady sweating the details of this state dinner? A bridezilla agonizing.

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Inspirational Lifelines Keep Your Head Above Water

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com How do you stay motivated when you’re surrounded by idiots? It’s an age-old challenge. Whether it’s catty coworkers, lackluster employees, incompetent supervisors or directionless higher-ups, sometimes it seems like the whole world is conspiring to bring you down. You want to be a superstar, and.

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Suburban Angst Behind The White Picket Fence

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com What did you want to be when you grew up? If you were like many little girls who bought into the June Cleaver myth, you probably spent more time thinking about where you were going to live than what you were actually going to do..

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Bed Wrath and Beyond: The Princess and the Peeve

Extra firm. I never dreamed those two little words would cause me to despise my husband, bicker with my parents and spoil countless family vacations. But I’m here to tell you — a bad mattress can ruin your relationships. When my dad first purchased the discount-priced, queen-size mattress for.

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Are Middle-Class Money Mantras Keeping You Poor?

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “We’re not made of money, you know.” If I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times. Whether it was Mom explaining why we couldn’t afford designer jeans or Dad lecturing us to turn the lights off, it seemed like we were always worrying.

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Which Comes First, The Gift Or The Gratitude?

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Don’t you just hate those sunshiny, cheery people? You know the kind, always focusing on the good stuff and stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the petty annoyances that plague the rest of us. On some days I want to become one of the Pollyannas, and on.

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Don't Curse The Ants That Feed You

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com The Ant Man cometh. And apparently he disliketh his job. Or at least the part that has anything to do with bugs. My Ant Man encounter began at 6 a.m. as I stumbled downstairs to fuel up on coffee before a morning of phone interviews..

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Don’t Curse The Ants That Feed You

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com The Ant Man cometh. And apparently he disliketh his job. Or at least the part that has anything to do with bugs. My Ant Man encounter began at 6 a.m. as I stumbled downstairs to fuel up on coffee before a morning of phone interviews..

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If Ignorance Is Bliss, Does Intellect Create Angst?

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Are smart people miserable? There’s a long-held theory that average folks are happier than the brainiacs with high IQs. The premise – probably concocted by a bunch of geniuses- is that if you’re super smart, you’re more likely to be tormented by things like global.

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Great Expectations Often Blindsided By Dirty Diapers

By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Remember imagining how idyllic life would be when you had your first baby? Cute little booties, a beautiful nursery filled with plastic duckies and a precious baby clad in a hand-smocked white gown, cooing up at you just like the little cutie on the Pampers.

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