by Anita Balic | Jul 3, 2020 | July Newsletter 2020
Independence Day 2020 32 years ago, I moved from Croatia to the great state of Ohio. At the time, Croatia was part of communist Yugoslavia. Growing up in a socialist regime, I experienced suppression and a lack of religious freedom – if Christmas fell during...
by Anita Balic | Jul 18, 2019 | July 2019 Newsletter
THE POWER OF LISTENING God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason – we should listen twice as much as we speak! When my boys were in high school and we rode back and forth to school we did a lot of talking. Looking back I feel the biggest mistake I made at...
by Anita Balic | Jun 17, 2019 | June 2019 Newsletter
THE POWER OF HABIT Habits are powerful routines. They are automatic and sequential movements of our bodies. Neuroscientists estimated that 95% of our daily activities are done at a subconscious level, carried out without our conscious brain being aware of what is...
by Anita Balic | May 10, 2019 | May 2019 Newsletter
In his sophomore year in high school, one of our sons achieved a 4.6 GPA on his way to gaining an International Baccalaureate Diploma. It was a great achievement, but it came at a heavy cost. Despite being over 6 ft tall, by graduation he weighed less than 120 lbs....
by Anita Balic | Apr 4, 2019 | April 2019 Newsletter
The secret sauce! Last Thursday at 10am, I pulled into the Planet Fitness carpark, ready for my morning workout, and I was amazed to see that the car park was packed. I thought there must be some special event going on, but I was wrong. The cars all belonged to...
