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A Beautifully Uncertain 31-Day Challenge: Week 4

January 24, 201614 CommentsMandy Hale

Welcome back to the Challenge, everyone! I thought it might be good for everyone to have a couple of days off to reflect on how far they’ve come so far…so technically, this is a 28-day challenge but we’ll keep using the hashtag #31DayChallenge for the sake of conformity.

Day 25: Face a Fear

Okay! On to the business of Day 25!

In Beautiful Uncertainty, you’ll read about a very funny moment (at least it’s funny NOW, it was … » Read More

A Beautifully Uncertain 31-Day Challenge: Week Two

January 8, 201625 CommentsMandy Hale

I hope everyone enjoyed Week One of the challenge! I have to say…I think I’m even more excited about Week Two!!!!

To recap: I decided to do things a little differently in 2016. This year, I’m inviting you to ditch the resolutions and instead start a New Year’s REVOLUTION with me, in the form of achieving one very simple, attainable goal each day. Since so many of us are in seasons of waiting (waiting for love, waiting for … » Read More

Dash of Sass: If You’ve Been Looking for a Sign…This Is It

January 12, 201512 CommentsMandy Hale

You know the scariest part of starting to write a new book? (Or blog, or post, or speech, etc. etc.) That moment just before I actually begin. When I’m staring at a blank page that I have to fill with words and I feel absolutely terrified that I’m going to fill the page with the WRONG words, or that my brain is just going to stop working and I won’t have any words at all. … » Read More

Dash of Sass: One Thing Can Change Your Life

September 2, 20147 CommentsMandy Hale

Just one thing. One phone call. One step in a different direction. For me, it was one tweet. A New Year’s resolution to write more, and one tweet. I had no idea what I was doing or the movement I was starting…as is often the case with powerful change in our lives. It took me less than a minute to send out one tweet that changed the course of the rest of my life. Almost … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: In 2013: Less Talk, More Action

January 1, 2013CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.” ~Chinese Proverb The Single Woman Says: Confession time. I don’t put myself out there enough. I don’t take enough chances. I deliberate too much. Sometimes I will literally sit in the parking lot of Target or Barnes & Noble or wherever and ponder whether … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Destination Unknown

October 1, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quotes of the Day: “I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: To Move Forward, You’ve Gotta Stop Looking Back!

July 22, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ~Steve Maraboli The Single Woman Says: Today, this week, this moment…I want to make the theme “Moving Forward.” I’m in a phase of my life right now where everything is new. New phone, new phone number, new hair color, new(ish) apartment, and in … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Don’t Just REACH for the Stars – DANCE With Them!

April 10, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “That thing that scares you the most, that makes you say ‘I don’t know if I can do it, I’m scared’…run towards it, because it’s so amazing on the other side.” ~Sherri Shepherd The Single Woman Says: In case you missed it, the very vibrant, joyous Sherri Shepherd was voted off Dancing With the Stars last night in a moment that shocked … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Take the Leap!

February 28, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “Today is an ephemeral ghost…A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not “exist.” In mundane terms, it marks a “leap” in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune … » Read More