Self-care

Will you join me in creating a theme for 2015?

In the past, I would set goals and make New Year’s resolutions this time of year – and that worked out okay I suppose. I’m not knocking either one of those processes; but the really great stuff that happened in both my personal and professional life was neither a goal nor a resolution. It was…

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Productivity is Overrated (IMHO)

Have you been too busy, too tired, too stressed and too overworked for too long? Are you killing yourself to get things done? Ever wonder if there’s a better way? Productivity is overrated. Yes, you read that right. I know I’ve been a big advocate of productivity – guilty as charged. For some reason, I’ve…

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It Just Doesn’t Matter Anymore

Sometimes revelations arise from the most unlikely things. I didn’t start reading fiction until I was 40, because I thought it was a waste of time. My nose was always in a book, but I only read non-fiction (because it taught me important things). Then I discovered Nora Roberts and experienced the indulgent escape that…

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Will the Real You Please Stand Up

My daughter participated in two fitness classes back to back, led by the same instructor. She told me how funny it was that the instructor was soft-spoken and ‘Zen like’ during the yoga class and then became a loud drill sergeant during the ‘combat’ class that followed. I wondered which of the two personalities she…

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Be Careful What You Wish For: How Your Thinking Can Hold You Back

Have you ever searched for a missing ‘everyday item’ like your keys or your glasses? You checked in your purse, doubting they would be there, and of course they weren’t. But after you looked everywhere else they could possibly be, you went back to your purse and – lo and behold – they were right…

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