Life Offline

Learning a few things about the pups (these 2 aren’t mine) from trainer Kelly Sceberras.

At the after-party for the Cheryl Burke Dance Studio winter show.

Watch Katie learn how to do a useful Pilates exercise to help strengthen the back.

Learning to ballroom dance with Bonnie Marie and Jamie Bayard, owners of JB Dance.

Goals come in all shapes and sizes, but the most popular ones are losing weight, working out more, spending more time with friends and family, getting organized, and sticking to a budget. Those are all achievable goals, so why do so many of us fail? Why do we make the same promises to ourselves every year, and never fulfill them? The biggest reason is that most of us don’t understand how to use our own minds to help us get what we want.

I have often said that what I love most about social media is the transparency it forces upon us. Hard to lie about getting that big promotion or exaggerate how cute your new boyfriend is, when everyone can check out your Linked In profile and Facebook photo albums and get the truth. But it also forces me to realize that transparency is not always the most polite option.

My whole family is in town for my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary! (We’re missing is my sister-in-law, who stayed at home with my new niece, who is too young to fly.) Congrats Mom & Dad!

Celebrating the holidays at an open house for A Theory in Motion Pilates studio. That’s me with owner (and Pilates instructor extraordinaire) Tamara Wiper.

Mom, you took WAAAAAAAY too long on that conference call!

And even though we are far away from our families this year, tucked into our little condo with the dogs, I have never felt closer to all the people in my life. It’s as if we’re sharing Thanksgiving with each and every one of them. Social Media did that. And I think it’s pretty amazing.