by Alissa | Jan 9, 2023 | Alissa McClure blog, random thoughts, self-improvement, Updates
My WORD for 2022 was hope. I was inspired to learn more about this word after reading this talk. I became particularly interested in how it related to my word for 2021: faith. I was so intrigued by how often we see those words paired together throughout...
by Alissa | Nov 4, 2022 | Alissa McClure blog, random thoughts, self-improvement
I don’t outright talk about religion here typically–even though it is a HUGE part of my personal life–because I feel like it is something vastly personal and I never want any friends to feel excluded because their beliefs do not match my own. But since my word for...
by Alissa | Apr 20, 2022 | Alissa McClure blog, Joy, motherhood, random thoughts, self-improvement, Updates
The first day I ran, I wasn’t intentionally starting a new fitness program. If I’m being totally honest, I started jogging across the crosswalk because the crossing guards had been holding up traffic for a while already and I felt guilty about keeping all those people...
by Alissa | Jan 23, 2021 | Alissa McClure blog, Joy, self-improvement, Updates
When I was in high school, I had this incredible opportunity to take voice lessons from a professor at Florida Southern College. It was quite a drive from my house, but the circumstances behind this little miracle opportunity were such that I never considered not...
by Alissa | Jul 10, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, giveaway, Joy, random thoughts, self-improvement
In case you missed it or forgot (I mean, there have been a few other things going on this year…), my One Little Word for 2020 is SHINE. Yes, SHINE. I was not comfortable with this word. It made me cringe and recoil at first. As I mentioned before when I first...
by Alissa | Jul 8, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, Joy, motherhood, random thoughts, self-improvement, strengthen family
2020 has been hard. And I won’t even pretend to understand how hard it’s been for everyone else. I have a pretty active imagination, but I know I couldn’t even imagine some of the situations you have had to deal with. I’m so sorry. I keep...
