Happy New Year! Are you feeling the fresh start effect? The momentum comes from a turn of the calendar – like a new year, a new month, a new week, and a new day! I have spent the last fifteen years helping students, parents, teachers, and volunteers enter a new season with a clear vision and some time to consider both professional and personal goals that will help them have their best year. Launch your…
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I have given up on Christmas cards. Oh, I have the best intentions, but it seems some time warp exists in the first days of November, and the next thing I know, it is late January. I am not beating myself up because I accomplish navigating five birthdays and a big holiday for my immediate family of 17 in that time warp. That’s why I love Valentine’s. I feel like I can pay attention to…
Leave a CommentThis week in my 3 Ways to More Time and Energy Course, I talked about some of the ways to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate Emotions. This R.U.L.E.R. tool was created by Dr. Marc Brackett Ph.D. Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. More tools and resources are shared below. Let me know if you find anyone of these helpful to you! Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero Necessary Ending by…
Leave a CommentI was running down the middle of my campus dormitory hallway. The naval term is chopping. All freshmen were required to chop whenever they were out of their rooms. This behavior and many others marked us as plebes, and there was only one way for our plebe rules to end. Climb Herndon. Herndon is a 21-foot granite obelisk standing on the US Naval Academy grounds. It was dedicated as all monuments at the Naval Academy…
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The pool was woven into our everyday summer days. Open from Memorial Day to Labor Day six days each week. The pool was closed on Mondays. My mother magically got all her work for the day done by 11 am when the Navy pool opened. Off we’d go until the whistle blew at 7 pm. It is still fascinating to me how she could do her daily routine with 9 kids at home and have…
6 CommentsDon’t commit. Don’t ask for help. Forget about it. You can succeed at failing but you really don’t want to :-). After all, no one begins a venture with the intention to fail at it. My definition of failing is not being willing to make any change in our lives and relationships to make progress on what we know will make our love and life better. Research shows that the older we get the less…
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