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Extreme Ownership

If You Take Credit For The Good Stuff, You Gotta Also Take Credit For The Bad Stuff

May 11, 2020 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I think one of the hardest skills to master as a human being is to take ownership of all the things we do. We don’t have a hard time owning the good stuff. When we succeed it’s because we put in the time. When we win it’s because we worked harder than everyone else. When […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Extreme Ownership, modeling the behavior you want, owning your mistakes

Day 27: GOOD

April 8, 2020 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

I was introduced to Jocko Willink a couple years ago. He’s a retired Naval officer and former Navy SEAL and now he runs a super successful consulting firm. He’s also written a couple of really successful books and has his own Podcast — the Jocko Podcast. My first introduction to Jocko was the book he […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: Extreme Ownership, GOOD, Jocko Willink, the Jocko Podcast

If You Are Sick Of Having To Lose Your Sh*t Before Your Family Listens, Then Stop Losing Your Sh*t Before Your Family Listens

July 1, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

The other day I saw a post floating around Facebook entitled I’m Sick Of Having To Lose My Shit Before My Family Listens. This caught my eye because, well, I would have said something similar years ago. But I’ve spent the past few years doing a lot of work on myself. And here is the […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: Extreme Ownership, losing it, losing your shit on your kids, positive discipline, yelling at your kids

Two Years From Now, They Will Remember *This*

October 6, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Every day I look back through old posts I’ve written on that same day in previous years, and if there are any that are still relevant or if I think they will be useful to readers, I repost them on Facebook. (Yes, I know I should be scheduling these in bulk at one time so […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: apologizing to your children, Extreme Ownership, owning your behavior, parenting fails

Discipline = Freedom

August 18, 2018 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

this post contains amazon affiliate links which, should you click on them, may give me a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you Last week a friend of mine sent me a private message asking me if I listened to audio books. Which, up until about five minutes after I read her message, […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: discipline equals freedom, Extreme Ownership, freedom, Jocko Willink, Navy Seals, Task Force Bruiser

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