by Lori Ann King | Jan 13, 2026 | Mindset
For many years, I chose a word for the season I was in. Not a resolution. Not a goal. A companion word. Something to return to when life got loud or blurry. In my teens, I craved independence. In my twenties, I longed for strength. In my thirties, I chased freedom. In...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 7, 2026 | Self-Care
Last year, I finally admitted something: I was exhausted not because I was working too hard, but because I was constantly paddling upstream. I had knowledge and skills. I cared. I was doing what I thought I should be doing. But something was off. I was forcing...
by Lori Ann King | Dec 24, 2025 | Holidays
I pulled off the surprise of the decade, but not without a little grit along the way. Last Wednesday, my mum turned 80. On Saturday, my sister celebrated her birthday. Somewhere between those two milestones, I boarded a plane from Las Cruces to Central New York,...
by Lori Ann King | Aug 14, 2023 | Mindset, Self-Care
This post was originally written in May 2019. After listening to a team training during a Platform Launchers’ weekly mastermind about Focus, Consistency, and Quitting Too Soon, I updated it. The training reminded me of this post and how the power of focus and...
by Lori Ann King | Apr 19, 2023 | Self-Care
For most of my life, I lived by the philosophy of Work Hard and Play Harder. Self-care and balanced wellness was not a concept I was aware of. My order of priorities was to work and then play. Rest was simply not in my vocabulary. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” I...
