Fun fact: What’s the leap about in a leap year? It is actually a bit of a bold leap into the future. With the addition of an extra day in the calendar, all the fixed dates like Christmas or Valentine’s Day move forward one day from the previous year. For example, in 2019 Christmas was…
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Rough road ahead: How to manage when life gets hard
Rough Road Ahead: How to manage when life gets hard Update: This post was originally published February 2013 and has been updated with new content. It’s that time of the year again. The weather is warmer, the snow is gone and they are popping up everywhere. I don’t mean green sprouts in the garden. I’m…
What wild geese can teach you about success
You can hear them long before you can see them. Honk honk honk. You never exactly know when it will happen. Some years it is early in the fall. Other years the snow has already fallen. But guaranteed one day or another flocks of Canada Geese make their way overhead. I always stop when I…
Is love all you need?
It’s that time of year when love is in the air. A whopping 220,000 marriage proposals happen on Valentine’s Day. I bet each and every one of them is infused with proclamations of undying love. With half of marriages ending in divorce, it begs the question: Is love all you need? For some couples,…
Be mindful of the fire rooster: 7 tips for the year
Good riddance to the Monkey! That’s what many people might be saying on Saturday as we bid farewell to the year of the Monkey and ring in the Chinese year of the Fire Rooster. Rooster years are sometimes called “years of awakening”. Maybe that’s because the rooster with his bold cock-a-doodle-doo awakens the…
How to bring good fortune to your home
Today’s mindfulness moment… Are some people just luckier than others? Maybe. The more important question might be: What can I do to bring good fortune to my life? Turns out your outlook has a lot to do with how successful you are. In other words, the happier you are, the more likely you will handle…
Do this when you are stuck
Today’s mindfulness moment… Ever felt stuck? Me too. Sometimes we are stuck because we are afraid. Or not sure what the “right” thing is to do. Or maybe we are just held hostage by the inertia of being stuck for so long. Here’s some good advice courtesy of tennis legend Arthur Ashe: Start where you…
Mindfulness moment – fresh beginning
Past choices can hold us hostage in the present when we spend time regretting our decisions. Coulda, shoulda, woulda is a waste of time.
3 ways to increase focus and productivity
Even though we know that multi-tasking is an unproductive way to use our time, let’s face it – most of us still give into the habit of trying to do more than one thing at a time. In fact most workplaces still expect us to juggle multiple tasks at the same time. Workplace expectations have…
Mindfulness moment – forever
We spend a lot of our time planning how we will create what the future will look like. Of course setting goals is an important part of anyone’s success. What we sometimes forget is that it is here in the present moment when we actually make the choices that will lead to the realization of…