Well, the cat is out of the bag.  I know I should be pro­ject­ing this air of pure con­fi­dence, but I think it is impor­tant for the integrity of this blog to reflect what I am actu­ally feel­ing.  Trep­i­da­tion.  Excite­ment.  Amaze­ment that I’ve got­ten this far.

Cross­ing my fingers

Ques­tion­ing why I am not fur­ther. And much, much more. And cross­ing my fingers.

You see, I’m no dif­fer­ent than every­one else who is work­ing on achiev­ing their goals, build­ing the life they desire, and fam­ily har­mony. We all want to reach our goals.  We all want to have the life we dream about.  But I know from my own life that some­times it just feels like “I’m the only one strug­gling with this.” or “Why is this so hard?  Every­one else seems to get it so eas­ily.” or ” How come I am not get­ting what I want as fast as oth­ers get what they want? or “Why do fam­ily or work needs keep tak­ing pri­or­ity over what I want to accomplish?”

Being Authen­tic is Important

I want this blog to be authen­tic and a place where read­ers can find resources that help them on their jour­ney to strength­en­ing the har­mony in their life, fam­ily and work.

You see, I believe that the peo­ple we believe are suc­cess­ful — busi­ness owner, celebri­ties, hap­pily mar­ried folks, etc.  — have all expe­ri­enced their own per­sonal demons and dif­fi­cult times.  They just stuck with it and fig­ured out how to get through and get bet­ter.  That is what this blog is all about.  Help­ing you to get through what­ever is hold­ing you back and get bet­ter at strength­en­ing the har­mony in your life, fam­ily and work.

I don’t know where this jour­ney is tak­ing me.  I only know that I was given the idea — some­how it floated into my head and at least I was wise enough to “hear it.”  Up until now, I have been reluc­tant to truly embrace it and take action to take the idea to the world.

But now I am tak­ing action.  I hope “the world” will wel­come the idea and use the resources to take action in their own lives.

This is my very first post on my very first blog.   Wel­come to  StrengthenTheHarmonyBlog.com

Judy Whalen

I finally took the leap, mas­tered the tech­nol­ogy (well, almost mas­tered) and launched this blog.  Let me tell you, it was a leap.   I hear so many peo­ple talk­ing about how they write, read and com­ment on blogs.  I’ve had inter­net mar­ket­ing coaches tell me to just put up a blog and start inter­act­ing with peo­ple.  Well, it seemed to take me more time than most peo­ple.  You see, I needed to develop the strat­egy of how the Strengthen the Har­mony webi­nar and this blog and fit into my over­all busi­ness.  In my offline world (whalen.com), I am a con­sul­tant work­ing with busi­nesses and non­prof­its to help them develop strate­gies to be suc­cess­ful.  So I needed time to get the strat­egy piece to come together.  But I also needed time to con­vince myself that I could mas­ter the tech­nol­ogy and learn the inter­ac­tion piece. You see I am “old school.”   My pro­fes­sional life started long before com­put­ers were on every desk or before you could research your mar­ket­place or get feed­back from your cus­tomer by “tweet­ing.”   Back in those days we devel­oped elab­o­rate plans about get­ting feed­back.  Today you get feed­back instan­ta­neously.  So that is the leap!   I am jump­ing off the “old school bus” and hop­ping on the “new school bus.”   I’m open­ing myself and my ideas up for com­ments and instan­ta­neous response.   I have to be hon­est, I have a bit of trep­i­da­tion.  But noth­ing ven­tured, noth­ing gained.  So here I go.…. Wel­come to the Strengthen the Har­mony blog.  I look for­ward to this adventure.