This week one of my clients told me about the new dog she adopted. I was concerned for a few reasons. First, finances are tight right now and a dog can cost of family a thousand dollars or more a year. Plus my client is trying to release stress versus…
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Rethink Giving
How are you giving this year? Did you spend all of your holiday dollars on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Or are you opting out spending cash this year by making gifts instead of buying them?
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Less is More
Is your stuff adding or taking away from your life? Are you ready to edit your life by letting go of your extraneous stuff?
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The Return of Customer Service?
Have you received exceptional customer service lately? Please share where and when with us. If not or if your team needs a boost, read these stories of great customer service.
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Turn Up the Heat
Can't turn up your optimism? You can still increase your happiness.
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How Are You?
I had noticed that we ask the question without thinking, we answer it without thinking, and we don’t usually listen and truly hear to others’ responses. So I decided not to be boring with my response.
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Work Can Be Fun
We are moving into a new economy where we recognize our work provides money for survival but that we no longer have to survive our work.
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Work Life Amalgamation
I have come to see that Work-Life Balance is a misconception. I think we should stop thinking of “balancing” these seeming dichotomies and instead look at “amalgamation.” To amalgamate is to combine into a unified or integrated whole. Work and life should not be balanced but united.
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This Moment
My friend’s mother used to say, “Life is too short to be pissed off.” I learned of this at her memorial service and the meaning became even more poignant.
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Wii Let Me Be Mii
How a simple game of bowling on Wii became an eye-opening way to approach other issues in life.