by Rita Hudgens | Nov 7, 2017
Have you ever had to eat crow? I hate the taste of crow but I had to eat it last week. My friend Chelsea and I were attending an early morning Business Breakfast. The meeting was about to begin so we sat down at our table to listen to the first speaker. As soon as I...
by Rita Hudgens | Oct 30, 2017
Last night I was sitting on the patio of a local restaurant at an outdoor mall when I saw what looked like a grown man with a zombie horse head pass right by me. It gave me pause until I realized that there were other adults parading in costumes. Call me slow but it...
by Rita Hudgens | Oct 23, 2017
It had been a very long day and I got home later than usual. I was going to skip dinner and just blend a protein drink so I could sit down and decompress from my day. I was greeted at the door by my dog Valor. Unfortunately she had been inside way longer than what...
by Rita Hudgens | Sep 27, 2017
How do you find your sweet spot to master your day? If you were to google productivity, habits of successful people or entrepreneurial secrets, you would find a wealth of valuable tips on routines, habits, and the behaviors of highly successful people. No doubt we...
by Rita Hudgens | Sep 5, 2017
The office was dimly lit but not as dim as my heart and soul was. I was on a coaching call with my mentor and business coach, Margot Wurst. I was on the verge of losing my house, my credit, my marriage and all my hopes and dreams. Margot asked me what particular...
by Rita Hudgens | Aug 8, 2017
Who would ever guess that three vintage wicker baskets – one blue, one pink, one green, could cause such bickering in a family? Each year at Easter time, I’d climb the attic stairs and brave whatever menacing arachnids or rodents I had imagined lived up there....
by Rita Hudgens | Jul 6, 2017
May 23, 2015 Although it’s been two full years since my mother passed away, I remember it as if it were yesterday. She was living out her final days on this earth -her time was drawing near. No one could believe she was still alive. She had gone 23 days without food,...
by Rita Hudgens | May 15, 2017
Mental prisons come in various shapes, sizes and colors. Some may take the form of a deep, dark, foreboding old foe: fear. For others, the prison disguises itself as a bright shiny truth – but in actuality it’s nothing more than our own self-limiting beliefs...
by Rita Hudgens | Apr 25, 2017
A few weeks ago my daughter Heather was visiting from Los Angeles for the weekend. When she’s in town, we always make sure we get a workout in before she leaves. We had just left the gym and were returning home when we saw an unfamiliar car parked in my driveway and...
by Rita Hudgens | Apr 10, 2017
Can you remember back to your adolescent raging hormones, obsessive fantasies, and daydreaming about your first, highly anticipated, cataclysmic event – – – owning and driving your first car? Most pre-teen boys, though not yet sprouting facial hair,...