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I know for me, I am starting to plan our summer. My son told me the other day that I am talking about summer way TOO much. Yes, other parts of the country are already …

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I have been seeing and hearing about how we can intentionally use this transition time, this opening up post pandemic, to decide HOW we want to move forward.
Any time …

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I am not comfortable with conflict. I very much shy away from any controversy. My personality and one of my issues is that I am a people pleaser. I do not like to see …

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I am currently reading, Adam Grant’s new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What you Don’t Know. In the book he presents a chapter on what successful expert negot…

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I often think about the “fine” line between two extremes such as:

Rethinking versus over analyzing
Going with the flow and slowing down versus being lazy or complacen…

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I received the above quote in a message from Project Happiness and it got me thinking, what IS the difference between giving up and letting go?
I like so much of what …

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I have always known I was a maximizer.
I would agonize over what to wear to school each day until it was time to walk out the door. It goes hand in hand with my over a…

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I have often wondered, why a year as a child felt like an eternity and then why time seems to go by faster as we age?
I used to think that the reason time felt so muc…

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This weekend marks the year anniversary of the “shutdown.” The day the world stopped. We were not allowed to go anywhere – no playgrounds, no stores, no work, no…