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How to Keep from Being a Casualty in This War
Our lives are filled with war. War in the mainstream media, war in the social media, and war in the everyday conversations. We don’t have to live in the war zone to be profoundly mentally affected by...
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Full disclosure – today’s post is just for fun. OK, you’re right – fun is important for team cohesion, stress relief, and for mental wellbeing, so today’s newsletter might be useful, too.And it’s...
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What Do You Want? When Do You Want It?
Welcome to Election Day 2023. Though the news today is largely about who’ll be which party’s candidate for Election Day 2024, did you know that what and whom you vote for today could be far more...
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Fruits, Veggies, Nakedness, and Being on Stage
Are you afraid to stand up in front of an audience and give a presentation? Most people are, including some professional speakers. There you are, unguarded, vulnerable, and relying on your memory and...
View ArticleDo Your Words Really Matter?
In the United States, Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. In the early 1600’s, when the first Thanksgiving celebration featuring Englishmen in the New World happened, “giving thanks” was how people expressed...
View ArticleReady...Set...Share on Giving Tuesday!
Unless your eyes are just now opening for the very first time today, you already know today is Giving Tuesday. Today’s newsletter is short and sweet – if you’ll be giving today, please share the link...
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The Fine Art of Holiday Memories
Quick – what one holiday tradition from your childhood did you love best? Opening gifts? Family game time? Snitching the cookies while they were still warm?For me, it was the advent candles Mom let my...
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Patience, Planning, Creativity, and You
Have you ever built a gingerbread house? I’ve admired them, wished I could taste them, and never actually built one. Some of them look wonderfully basic and homey, some can be very elaborate, and I...
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Will You Use It or Will You Lose It?
There were a few major shifts during and after the pandemic in how we work, and one of them is people realizing that their lives are at least as important as their careers. People looked for jobs that...
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Do You Want a Little Whine With That?
In the majority of homes in North America, yesterday was celebrated with exchanged gifts, special holiday foods, and some extended-family togetherness. And in many of those homes, there were people who...
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New Year's Resolutions and How to Keep Them
Do you even know what day of the week it is? This year, at least Christmas and New Year’s Day both fell on Mondays, so maybe they just showed up as regular three-day holiday weekends for you.If you...
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Do You Need Further Proof of the Power of Pets?
Do you have a pet? Do you know how influential you are, you pet-owner, you?As people spent more time with their pets during the pandemic lockdown, and as those without pets realized the value of...
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Do You Believe in Your Dream?
To start the new year off on the right foot, I attended a presentation about setting intentions and committing to them. Around the halfway point, when he had walked us through a couple of exercises,...
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A Declaration of Victory for Analog
When was the last time you wrote a letter? Not typed a Word doc letter, not talked-to-texted a letter – when was the last time you put pen to paper and wrote?OK, so if you still send actual, physical...
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How to Save Yourself - Mind, Body, and Soul
One twelfth of the year is over. Done. Finished. How much of your comp time, PTO, and vacation time did you take this month? Have you thought about how you’ll use your vacation time this year? And have...
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In Honor of Spunky Old Broads
Do you equate age with wisdom? Many people do, and there’s science to back it up. While youth is revered in our culture, wisdom is, too, and when people are looking for advice, it’s their aging friends...
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Are You Celebrating Today?
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which can only mean one thing – today is Galentine’s Day! What? You’ve never heard of it? Read on…Galentine’s Day became a thing in 2010, when an episode of the television...
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The Many Hats of Leadership
Today let’s talk about leaders, and the leader that lives inside each of us. It’s easy to think about leaders as those who are somehow above our level – the president of your division, the president of...
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Is Time on Your Side or Are You Living on Borrowed Time?
What do you do with extra time? Just what IS extra time, anyway? This year is a leap year, meaning we have extra time – an entire extra day of time – to get things done. The reason we get that extra...
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Wanna Go to a Name Party?
Quick – what’s your name? I bet you know the answer to that question by heart, right? One of the first things parents teach their babies is how to recognize and use names – mama, dada, doggie, and the...
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