Tag: success

Productivity

Home Series: Setting Your Home Up for Success

Corie Muldoon

Your home is more than just a physical space… It’s a sanctuary, a haven, and a foundation for personal growth.

A well-designed home can boost productivity, enhance well-being, and foster meaningful connections.

In this Home Series, we’ll explore practical tips to set your home up for success.

1. Declutter and Organize

A clutter-free home clears mental and physical space:

  • Sort and purge unnecessary items
  • Assign a home for each possession
  • Schedule regular tidying sessions

2. Improve Your Layout

Efficient layout = efficient life:

  • Assess your workflow and traffic patterns
  • Position furniture for functionality
  • Use vertical storage

3. Lighting and Color

Illuminate your mood and productivity:

  • Natural light: maximize window usage
  • Artificial light: warm and cool tones
  • Color scheme: calming and energizing hues

4. Create Zones

Assign spaces for specific activities:

  • Workspace: focused productivity
  • Relaxation: calming ambiance
  • Social: welcoming atmosphere

5. Smart Storage

Invest in intelligent storage solutions:

  • Multi-functional furniture
  • Hidden storage compartments
  • Labeling and signage

6. Technology Integration

Streamline your life with smart home devices:

  • Voice assistants
  • Automated routines
  • Energy-efficient appliances

7. Wellness-Focused Design

Nurture physical and mental well-being:

  • Air purification systems
  • Water filtration
  • Nature-inspired elements

8. Personal Touches

Make your space truly yours:

  • Artwork and decor
  • Personal mementos
  • Cozy textiles

Putting it into Practice

To transform your home into a success hub:

  1. Start small: tackle one area at a time
  2. Involve family members: collaborative effort
  3. Schedule maintenance: regular check-ins

Share Your Thoughts!

How do you improve your home for success?

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Movement

Boost Fitness with Supersets: Rows, Push-Ups and Core Exercises

Corie Muldoon

Are you looking to take your fitness routine to the next level? Supersets are an effective way to maximize your workout efficiency and challenge your muscles. In this blog, we’ll explore three powerful supersets that target your back, chest and core.

What are Supersets?

Supersets involve performing two or more exercises consecutively without resting.

This technique increases intensity, boosts metabolism and enhances muscle growth.

Superset 1: Rows and Inverted Rows

Benefits

1. Targets back and arm muscles

2. Improves posture

3. Enhances overall strength

How-to

1. Rows: Hold dumbbells or a barbell with feet shoulder-width apart. Bend knees slightly and lean forward at hips. Lift weight to sides until elbows are at 90-degree angle. Lower and repeat.

2. Inverted Rows: Use a bar or ledge. Hold with hands shoulder-width apart and feet flat. Lift body until chest nearly touches bar. Lower and repeat.

Superset 2: Push-Ups and Planks

Benefits

1. Targets chest, shoulders and core

2. Improves balance and stability

3. Enhances overall upper body strength

How-to

1. Push-Ups: Start in plank position with hands shoulder-width apart. Lower body until chest nearly touches ground. Push back up. Use knees if needed.

2. Planks: Hold push-up position for 30-60 seconds.

Superset 3: Bicycles and Bridges

Benefits

1. Targets core and glutes

2. Improves flexibility and balance

3. Enhances overall core strength

How-to

1. Bicycles: Lie on back with hands behind head. Alternate legs in cycling motion.

2. Bridges: Lie on back with knees bent and feet flat. Lift hips until body forms a straight line.

Tips and Variations

1. Start with lighter weights and progress gradually.

2. Incorporate different grip positions (e.g., neutral, pronated).

3. Add leg lifts or rotations to rows and push-ups.

4. Use resistance bands or cables for variety.

Conclusion

Supersets offer an efficient and challenging way to enhance fitness.

Incorporate these row, push-up and core supersets into your routine to:

1. Boost strength and muscle growth

2. Improve overall fitness

3. Increase workout efficiency

Share your favorite supersets in the comments below!

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Productivity

Timeblock Session Template

Corie Muldoon

A timeblock session is a simple system we can implement on a weekly basis that prompts us to check in on our goals and plans.

Remember the three-step system of success: plan, do, review?

A timeblock session is review and plan; reviewing the previous week and planning the upcoming week.

Below is a template for your weekly timeblock session. Take what’s useful for ya, forget the rest, and add in your own flare, making it your own personalized system 🙂

Timeblock Session Template

  1. Review all written plans
  2. Review Life Map + set Weekly Goals
  3. Plan workouts for the week
  4. Update calendar for the week
  5. Review needed fixes
  6. Update Impossible List
Productivity

Life Map: A Goal Setting System

Corie Muldoon

Writing down our goals and breaking them down into small, doable tasks is how we get extraordinary results.

Good builders don’t build without a blueprint. They have a vision, write it out on paper, tweak it, and review it over and over again. When their plan is approved by multiple experts, only then do they start to break ground.

Like a good builder, we can visualize our dreams and write up a plan to achieve them. No wishing or wanting, we’re committed to making it happen.

It’s totally doable, ya just have to know what you want. And that’s where the Life Map comes into play!

Getting started


Let’s create a Google spreadsheet:

  • Life categories going down (health, personal, finance, etc)

  • Timeline going across (someday, 5 year, 1 year, 1 month, 1 week, daily)

Or just download a template of mine here 🙂

Choose 3-5 categories

What are your top 3-5 categories that you’d like to focus on?

  • Personal
  • Fitness
  • Health
  • Business
  • Finance
  • Romance
  • Charity
  • Something more specific?

Someday goal

Next, we’re going to come up with a “someday goal” for each category. This is where visualizing what you want your life to look like comes in handy! It’s the perfect time to write out your dream life.

Once you have a someday goal for each category, let’s move on to each category individually:

5 year goal

What’s the one thing I can do in 5 years that will help me accomplish my someday goal?

1 year goal

What’s the one thing I can do this year that will help me accomplish my 5 year goal?

1 month goal

What’s the one thing I can do this month that will help me accomplish my 1 year goal?

1 week goal

What’s the one thing I can do this week that will help me accomplish my 1 month goal?

Daily goal

What’s the one thing I can do today that will help me accomplish my 1 week goal?

BONUS: Who do I have to be?

Who do I have to be to accomplish my daily goal? Choose an adjective: outgoing, dedicated, romantic, curious, eager, consistent, reliable? Define what each word means and imagine yourself living it out.

Wrapping Up

The Life Map will keep you on track toward your goals, and will help you make big and small decisions you’ll be faced with down the road – “will saying yes to this push me toward my goals or away from them?”

The Life Map is a tool, and must be used on an on-going basis to get the best results possible. Yes that means reviewing your sheet daily 🙂

Your Life Map will be ever-evolving as you accomplish goals and replace them with new ones, so don’t get stuck on getting everything written out perfectly before taking action on your daily goals. Goals may change, even categories may change. The key is to keep up on the dailies and adjust along the way.

Take control of what you can control. Small actions lead to big results.

Commit to the Life Map and create the life of your dreams 🙂

Experiences, Impossible List, Movement

Bike outdoors 100 days in a row

Corie Muldoon

Completed my goal of biking outside 100 days in a row. Another one crossed off the impossible list!

Some days were MUCH easier than others.

During these past 100 days I’ve…

  • Sold our home and bought another one
  • Laid my poppop to rest
  • Listed our new place up on Airbnb
  • Road tripped from Philly to Florida for the summer (with only a duffle bag)

All big things that could easily throw me off if I wasn’t laser focused on completing this goal.

Dealing with Grief

When my pop passed, a fire ignited in me to take care of my heart health. At the time I was working on my 100 day goal already, and wanted to keep it going in honor of him.

On my low days when I didn’t feel like biking, I thought about my pop. “If only he had exercised more and made his health a priority.” I was making myself miserable.

It took some major self-awareness and raw honesty to admit that I was living in the past of wishing and wanting life to be different, to just have my pop back – completely resisting the moment.

It took sooo much energy to consciously redirect my attention. But in doing so, the sadness and anger became my biggest motivation: the fuel to my fire.

When I felt sad or angry, I would force myself to think- “NOW is MY chance to be healthy and take care of myself. This is all Poppop wants, for me to be happy and healthy. This is exactly what the universe is teaching me. Take care of myself, now, not later.”

And out the door I would go. Feeling my pop completely proud of me for doing something that I didn’t want to.

West Palm Beach, FL for a month
Road trip from Philly to Florida


No Rain, No Rainbow

There were days I had to legit drag myself out of bed bc I wasn’t feeling the best and days I forced myself out the door into the freezing pouring rain and cried about it lmao.

There have been highs and lows, but no matter what I got up and got out there day after day.

I face planted my first day out on the bike, had breakdowns before, during, and after rides, found some peace, and learned so much about myself.

AND after all this time, I can now ride a bike without using handlebars (lifelong dream)!

Just celebrating along the way.

What’s your current health/fitness goal and how is it going? Comment below.

Don’t have a goal? Make one 🙂

Don’t know where to begin? Hit me up, I’d love to help you out with creating one ♡


x Corie

General, Lifestyle, Mindfulness

Hospitality

Corie Muldoon

I recently applied for a lead hostess job on Indeed, and they asked for my thoughts on what hospitality means to me. This was my response. I wanted to share because I feel it’s important to remember that attitudes and the way we do life is contagious. How’re you operating? Do people walk away from you or your business feeling happier and more fulfilled? If not, a genuine boost in hospitality could do the trick.

“Hospitality is overdelivering on the customer experience.

A hospitable worker is warm, proactive, and genuine in their approach to the customer.

The worker treats the customer like family and will always think ahead and deliver on customer needs, ideally before the customer realizes they need it.

Using drink refills as an example, I have a simple rule: Never let a customer get to an empty glass.

When you see their drink has half to a quarter left…

Automatically bring out more water if water is what they’re drinking.

Or ask if they’d like a new drink if it’s paid refill.

When the customer stops ordering alcohol, bring out water.

Think ahead. How would you like to be treated when you are in that position? I know I hate a dry mouth, and I’ve never complained about having too much water while I’m out to eat.

Where else can we overdeliver on the customer experience?”

x Corie

Ps – I’d like to note that the restaurant I applied to reached out two days later inviting me to a sit down with management! Boom!