The clean slate, fresh composition book and sharpened pencils associated with a new school year signify a chance to learn, improve and do better, with all the old mistakes blotted out.
A friend who works at the local high school’s wellness center had a good word for parents the other day. Now that the school year is upon us, she said, we can’t help our children manage their stress if our own is off the charts. Her recommendations? Exercise. Spend time with God. Eat right (10! [...]
Have you ever looked back on a day and wondered where the time went? Ever caught yourself in one of your favored time sinks? Laura Stack, at productivitypro.com, has written an article for Productive! magazine with the header “I spend waaaayyyy too much time on…” It’s thought provoking. What are your most productivity-stealing activities?
The other day, someone gave me some well-intended, but kind of not nice feedback about a public speaking appearance I made a couple of weeks ago.
I’d shared in a group that while I normally really enjoy public speaking (not like those people who rank it as their biggest fear, ahead even of not being able to [...]
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Visualize the family station wagon packed to the gills, sailing off on vacation with the happy nuclear family of five. (And if you’ve been in the car with said family for 14 hours, you’ll know why they call it “nuclear!”)
Now add to this mental image a roof rack stacked high with reference materials, loose papers whipping free in [...]
For those of you looking for a bit of a new spin on the work-from-home approach, why not consider creating a home from which you can see the world? Consider this piece about Joel Pierson, who works as a cruise ship pianist for Crystal cruises. Stints on the ship may be long, and you may [...]
OK, so my big project is done, and now I’m in the “shopping to reward myself” phase. Yesterday I bought a great pair of white sandals, 2 shirts, and a well-deserved backpack that, oddly, has an ugly doll hanging from the clasp. Plus I treated myself to lunch because, well, I deserve it.
As I drove [...]