When we are making a tough decision, sometimes it is good to get advice from others. Do they agree with your decision? Can they help you implement it? Ask good questions? Provide advice now and along the way? But of course, everyone is eager to offer their advice. Make sure you listen to those you [...]
When should you be unique, quirky, self vs. tweak your personality to fit a different mold? Sometimes it is important not to offend certain people. Yet, if you try to mold your personality to offend no one, you may become an unattractive, boring person - even to yourself. I suspect that most of us fall [...]
Our mind has an amazing ability to dwell on something and blow it out of proportion. I was recently talking to someone about the supervisors that I have had and I recalled a story from 15 years ago. The boss at my first real, full time, adult job forgot to tell me about a staff [...]
When there is too much information or we have too many choices, we often make no decision at all. This is of course a decision in and of itself, but it doesn't feel like it and is often easiest, while also often being the worst. I read recently that employees offered many options to invest [...]
It was a rare lovely day and I was out on a trail with my pup. We passed a middle-aged couple. I pulled off to the right side of the trail which forced the gentleman to move further to the center. As soon as I made my move I could tell that his body did [...]
Marie Kondo has introduced us to the idea of deciding whether to hold onto our personal possessions by asking if the items bring us joy. But what if we applied that same tactic to our most valuable resource, our time. What do you spend time on that truly sparks joy? Do you have enough of [...]
[I haven't stopped with trip stories, but thought I would take a break for the day.] During Covid there have been reports of people having more vivid dreams. I figured it had something to do with the broad-scale stress people were experiencing. However, it may have more to do with our sleep patterns. Without time [...]
[If you want the beginning of the story, read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here]. We awoke on day 2 of our trip to clearing skies. I used to live in Colorado, and before that, California - both locations where it was sunny pretty much all of the time. Now I live in [...]
I think that learning better communication will be a lifelong process. When to be direct? (Always?) When to reach out. When not to reach out. When to remain silent.
Some of us look on the bright side. With confidence and hope for the outcome. Others of us halt good feelings. Perhaps we have experienced so much loss and will not allow the feeling of pleasure, or hope, because we 'know' that it will turn negative. Just give it time and the good will go [...]
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