Getting to Good Enough

When it comes to living an easy life, helpful habits are everything. In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss why good habits are important and how to create them.

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• How …

The bedrock of all the advice we offer on this podcast is, "Know what's important to you." In this episode, Janine and Shannon discuss how to get in touch with your values so that you can more easily…

Shannon and Janine are among the millions of people who enjoy doing genealogy research. In fact, as a genealogy blogger, Janine devotes a significant amount of time to it. In this, our second Good En…

This week, Shannon and Janine interview the amazing writer Alexandra Franzen, author of the upcoming novel So This Is the End: A Love Story. We've both had the opportunity to work with Alex and know …

Setting priorities makes sure that we get important things done and don't spend our time putting out fires or doing things that don't contribute to our goals. In this episode, Shannon and Janine talk…

Asking for help can be so, well, helpful. Yet many people (Janine and Shannon included) have difficulty asking for help. In this episode we explore how life can be better when you seek help. This epi…

We make thousands of decisions a day. Some are easy. Some are hard. And some are harder than they need to be. In this episode, Shannon and Janine talk about making decisions a little easier.

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It's your turn! In this episode Janine and Shannon answer questions from listeners.

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Empowering:

• Becoming empowered by the people who teach you

• Finding someone to work with …

Evening routines set you up for success the next day. Shannon has a well-practiced evening routine she thinks of as "putting the house to bed." In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss the value o…

Being overcommitted often means being stressed. In this episode, Janine and Shannon suggest the hazards of overcommitting and ways to keep yourself from overcommitting. (Including ways to just say no…

Virtually everyone procrastinates at one time or another. In fact, both Shannon and Janine used to be terrible procrastinators. In this episode we take a look at the various reasons people procrastin…

The routine things we do every morning can help shape our day. Janine is the queen of morning routines while Shannon strives for a better one. In this episode Shanon and Janine discuss the hows and w…

Janine and Shannon have decided that each episode that ends in a zero will be a Good Enough In Practice {GEIP} episode, where we talk about something that demonstrates how embracing good enough is he…

Shannon and Janine discuss luck -- the good kind -- and how a "good enough" attitude can help make you more aware and able to take  advantage of opportunities that show themselves. We also talk about…

We all do things differently--and that's okay. In this episode Shannon and Janine talk about how it doesn't matter how you do things, as long as your way is working.

Discussion topics include:

• Why co…

It's hard to know how to stop at good enough if you haven't identified what good enough means to you. Shannon and Janine discuss why it's important to understand your own standards of good enough--an…

Shannon and Janine get excited talking about task management and the various methods we've used over the years to stay happy and productive while trying to get stuff done.

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Janine and Shannon truly embraced the concept of "good enough" when creating this podcast.

In this episode we talk about how we went from idea to launch in less than two months (with five episodes re…

What is that little voice in your head telling you? Self-talk can be positive, but all too often it's negative and not at all helpful.

Shannon and Janine discuss turning the negative self-talk around …

Everyone backslides. Shannon and Janine see it all the time in their clients (and we experience it ourselves, too).

In this episode we discuss how backsliding is part of the process and how important …