If you are looking for a dramatic story about the moment, I decided to become a writer… I’m sorry to disappoint—

Because there really wasn’t one.

Instead, there was a question—

Actually…

There have been thousands of them.

Why do we as humans make life so complicated?

Why does healthy eating sometimes feel like we are solving a mystery novel?

Why do the smallest changes in life often create the biggest transformations?

And why does no one… anywhere… include a map?

I have spent most of my life asking those kinds of questions, chasing rabbits down trails, reading research, filling notebooks, and occasionally realizing it’s two in the morning because I was ‘only going to look up one tiny thing.”

(So, if you have every too disappeared down an internet rabbit hole… Welcome, we are certainly could be kindred spirits.)

Through the years, I’ve discovered I’m probably just curious enough to get myself into trouble.

I simply… can…not…leave…well…enough…alone.

If something does not seem to make sense to me… well… that’s usually the beginning of a very long research project.

Next up, I will research it to know the ‘why.’

Somethings can be or should be improved… Yep, then I will chase it.

And if someone says, “that’s just the way it is,” my research brain whispers…

“Well… it is… really?”

My family has learned that his question usually means I’m about to disappear behind a stack of books and a laptop for a while.

Fortunately, though… it led me here.

The Ideal Life Project grew out of a simple belief that life does not have to be perfect to become better… Isn’t that fabulous news? I think so.

A little knowledge can change a life in some pretty amazing ways.

Small, intentional steps matter more than most of us even realize.

And if we can learn something while smiling along the way… oh, so much more joyful and fun along the way.

Every project begins the same way for me.

A question or two… maybe more, but who is counting?

And then there’s my need to include a color-coded notebook, chocked full of ideas and notes.

And then… the proverbial mountain of research.

And the goal… a desire to create something that is genuinely helpful and even possibly life enhancing.

Some of my upcoming books—

Will explore health.

Some will celebrate family…

Some will preserve the stories we never want to forget.

And some… well… they may simply exist because I asked one too many questions and couldn’t resist following the trail.

Because let’s face it… life is messy, unpredictable and every once in a while it reminds us not to take ourselves quote so seriously.

But my hope always is that my reader’s lives will feel encouraged, capable and ready to take their next self-assured steps.

What I am most sure of is that the biggest transformations in life rarely begin with giant leaps.

They begin with a simple thought…

“I Wonder…”

Thank you for stopping by…

I’m profoundly honored that you have done so.

So, grab a cup of coffee… or tea… or whatever fuels your own rabbit trails… and come along.

                         With gratitude, hope and a very full heart—