When was the last time you tuned out every noise in your head to focus on the present moment? It’s not always easy. Mindfulness involves being actively aware of what you’re doing while you’re doing it. This can be a challenge in a 21st-century world, with all the pulls at one’s attention. However, practicing mindfulness today is […]
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Spring is here and I find myself like one of those buds on a tree just waiting to explode. I’ve got three years of pent up energy inside me, and baby – I’m about to let ‘er rip! In fact, I just busted up my hand in a kickboxing class (you shoulda seen the bag).
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Grit is a concept popularized by Angela Duckworth ten years ago with her book and 6-minute Ted Talk (watch it). It appears to be making the rounds on Linked In again. To me, Grit is focus and intensity, and a desire to succeed. A classic example of using grit is finishing a marathon (or improving
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If you ask someone from South Africa to define the South African Ubuntu philosophy, they’d have plenty to say! But ask the average North American, and you’ll probably find a whole lot of head-scratching. The Ubuntu ethic is a philosophy born from African philosophy. While it has been around for centuries, it was largely popularized
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Thoreau 425 people on 17 screens. That’s what jury duty is like now. We are invited, we Zoom, and we wait. In the past, when I attended jury duty in a municipal building, I loved the enforced study hall. I couldn’t see
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Job loss is no easy thing, especially when a person has been laid off by an employer. This type of job loss is almost always unexpected, leaving newly let-go employees reeling. If you’ve been laid off recently, you’re not alone. Mass layoff situations have been sweeping the United States in different industries, pushing thousands of
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When I see the words “Free to Be…” I hear the banjo bum ba da bum bum, that drum, and there’s a land that I see where the children are free… And I feel good. It’s my childhood. Days of Pete Seeger, Harry Chapin (Kleenex alert on that link), hope and possibility. My early caregivers played Free to Be You and
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Many of us spend our lives in pursuit of happiness. But is that goal achievable? And if so, can we appreciate that happiness comes and goes, like the enjoyment of dessert. Do you truly understand the meaning of happiness? What about contentment? Where does it fit in and what’s the difference between happiness vs contentment?
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In the spirit of winter, I went offline and inside for the last week of the year. So many of us feel the pressure to spend the turn of the year with ACTIVITY and TRAVEL and GATHERING WITH OTHERS, and this year I tried a different approach. I know a few of you made the
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