If you spend much time on social media or with people who read anything on personal development, you’ll hear a lot about the importance of growth. If you’re not growing you’re dying, they’ll say. Development and continued effort is critical to growth. You’re supposed to be growing as a partner, growing as a parent. You’re […]
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Do you ever wonder why there are so many struggles with low grade anxiety and stress in recent years? If you go back 50 to 100 years ago, the numbers are completely different. You don’t even have to go that far. This article from Psychology Today says that Gallop found that people in the US
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Working parents have the best of both worlds. It is hard. Saying it again for those in the back, it is both great, and hard. For me, the difficulty doesn’t come in rushing home from work, meal planning to make the most of time in the evening, or even in making the most of the
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How many times do we attempt to multitask to increase productivity? Um, me, right here I do it weekly if not daily. I think if I just start this and that at the same time, I’ll be killing two birds with one stone. Well my friends, the odds of that working out to your betterment
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If you have or love little ones chances are you have seen them outgrow something that tugged at your heart. A favorite outfit, a toy they used to love, or a stage that you truly adored has come and gone. When the kids outgrow something on their terms they tend to handle it well. They
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I am so interested in growth mindset. If you’re not familiar with growth mindset, in very simple terms, it is the idea that you have the capacity for growth in anything. Meaning, the old excuse of I’m just not made for ______ (be it running, public speaking, swimming, singing, anything) is just not true. You
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Work is often seen as drudgery. How often have you heard people say, it isn’t meant to be fun, it’s work? But if you use work as a way to feel accomplished and confident it suddenly is rewarding. It doesn’t matter if it is life changing complex work or lugging a bucket around. You can
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Every year during Read Across America week kids in our little town, and probably all across the country, read the great Dr. Suess book, Oh the Places You’ll Go wearing the outfits they picked out to support where they want to go when they grow up on career day. You get kids dressed as plumbers,
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You spend so much time at work that it’s nearly impossible for your brain to not turn non-work-related situations into work ones. No, just me, well doing a puzzle recently gave me inspiration on standard operating procedures, skills gap analysis, team development, individual development and more. Unfortunately, that is too much for a single blog
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Can you really have any semblance of balance while you’re working hard on one specific goal? I mean, maintaining balance is hard enough when that is the goal, am I right? In the time of year when you’re just trying so hard to grow in one specific area of life or trying to become the
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