I was listening to a recent podcast from Luvvie Ajayi Jones in which she was talking about not being a “new you” in the new year. There’s a lot of ads for fitness equipment, diet programs, etc. that talk about how their product will help you be “a new you”, but Ajayi said something that READ MORE
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Two to Ponder – Wisdom From Adam Grant
Yesterday was Family Day here in Saskatchewan so we had the day off, and as of today I have lived in Canada longer than I lived in the U.S., which is where I was born and raised. We’re calling it my Canada Day and I’m spending it with my family. As such, this post will READ MORE
Taking Notes About Books
While I’ve spent a lot of time in my life as a student, I was never particularly good at taking notes. I would just jot down was on the board, often missing important things and not hearing what the instructor was saying. I know there are a lot of note taking methods out there including READ MORE
Saying ‘Yes’ to Being Consistant
For the first Better Me Podcast of 2022 I talked about trying to be consistent while not beating myself over some stumbles here and there. Some of the things that I’ve done well at being consistent at during the first six weeks of the year include: I’ve meditated every day for at least five minutes. READ MORE
The Mindfulness of Bubbles
Remember when you were a little kid and you would blow bubbles? You’d watch them float around for a few seconds, the sun shining on them, creating drifting rainbows.Those bubbles could keep you attention and entertain you for at least several minutes, but at some point, bubbles stopped grabbing our attention. Blowing bubbles stopped being READ MORE
Going Deeper
I often see advertisements online for subscription services or opportunities to purchase individual summaries of books. This has never appealed to me. I’ll admit that I made use of Cole’s Notes while in school, but that was for books I didn’t want to read. Today, I get to choose which books I read, and if READ MORE
Learning From History
Back in December I wrote a post about the importance of learning about history, even the history that’s hard to hear about. Something happened since then that made me want to write a more personal post on the subject. Not long after my daughter was born I started looking into our family history. My dad READ MORE
Yes to “Do”
I’ve written about doing my own “Year of YES” based on Shonda Rhimes book. It’s a little challenging given, well you know, that thing that has thrown off most of ours lives for the past two years that we won’t name in this post. In the Year of YES Journal the first month has a READ MORE
Rewarding Small Successes
I’ve written before about my ongoing quest to find a planner that really fits me. I stumbled across The Self-Care Planner from Simple Self and ordered myself one of the Daily Planners that has enough pages in it to last for six months. I’ll write more about the planner later because I like it a READ MORE
The Way We Use Treadmills, and How We Make Others Use Them, is Killing Us
Several years ago I was at the gym and there was a woman on one of the treadmills. She was running fast and had the incline set quite steep. And she was clinging to the front of the treadmill to keep from flying off. If you’re working so hard at something that you have to READ MORE
