January 2010
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Measuring Our Success
photo by flickr user tanakawho / CC BY 2.0
Guest post by Kim Wierman
How do we measure success? I guess that all depends on the goal and whether or not we achieved it. Makes sense, right? Sometimes, however, success can be measured by what we have learned along the way to reaching our ultimate goals. Using this philosophy (which I don’t claim in any way to be flawless) I believe that we can...
What Makes You Happy?
This week’s guest post was written by Kelly A. Olexa. Kelly’s extensive professional experience is a mixed blend of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. She has worked for tech startups, several small to medium-sized businesses, as well as Fortune 500 organizations. She is now regularly requested as a speaker, panel expert, guest vlogger, social media strategist, and...
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A Thankfulness Project
This week’s guest post was written by Leigh Ann Napier, iBloom Life/Marriage Coach. Leigh Ann works with women who “refuse to crash” in their marriages and helps single/engaged women who want to plant seeds for a fruitful, loving & lasting marriage. She provides coaching, encouragement and resources to women and helps them promote intimacy and understanding with their...
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A Better New Year's Resolution
Yesterday I decided to do a search on “New Years Resolutions + Gratitude” and was pleasantly surprised at the results. The first result I clicked on was entitled A Better New Year’s Resolution by Charles H. Green. It was from 2006 but is as relevant today as ever. Charles wrote (paraphrased a bit here):
My unscientific sampling says many people make New Year’s...
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“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at...”
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Photo by flickr user Zevotron / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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The Flexibility Factor
“Nothing in the World is More Flexible and Yielding” by flickr user b-tal
Guest post by Cheryl Nordyke
I would like to share with you something I have come up with called the flexibility factor. I came up with this idea from seeking peace within tension without allowing myself to be moved from the path I was trying to travel. Here is how it happened.
Over the last few...
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There's a reason you're happiest on weekends
For many of us, Friday brings a sigh of relief while Sunday night brings on a slight edge of uneasiness as we prepare for Monday morning. Sharon Jayson from USA Today shines a brighter light on the reasons why with this week’s post “There’s a reason you’re happiest on weekends”.
“Why weekends are better are the two factors of automony and relatedness,”...
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The Value of Time
Photo by flickr user jek-a-go-go/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Guest post by Cheryl Nordyke
There are moments in our lives that each of us realizes time is something to value. For each one of us this discovery comes at different points. Being raised by my grandparents and growing up around great aunts and uncles I was privy to this information early on. My grandmother was the youngest of 9 children...