Use Your Influencing Skills To Gain Respect and Propel Your Career We all want to be respected at work. Respected for what we accomplish. Respected for our input and ideas. It’s a great feeling to know that we are contributing in a meaningful way that gains the respect of others. It’s also important to be…
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When Does The Football season Start?
Today! As I write this the television is on and it’s the middle of Sunday afternoon. The noon games have just wrapped up and the 3 o’clock games have just kicked off. Yes, technically there was a game on Thursday but in my opinion today is really the first main day of football. I’ve got…
September is the Month For
Well, today is Labor Day 2019. The end of summer. I don’t know about you but I had a very full end of summer holiday weekend. Friday night we went out to my favorite Mexican restaurant with the father and aunt in law. They have the best margaritas. Saturday I made been jerky AND brisket…
How To Help Someone Feel Understood
Feeling understood is one of the best feelings there is. While doing some research for this article I noticed in several places that it’s as important as feeling loved. Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. We’ve all had communication interactions where the conversation seems to go nowhere. Or no matter…
How To Waste Your Time
I’m going to bring up one of my favorite subjects, the hamster wheel of life. That’s the wheel we all get on just about every day. The one where we get lost in all the fun tasks and duties we have to do to keep our lives going. Work, eat, sleep, laundry, mowing, cooking, cleaning…
Why You Should Try New Things
Does that seem kind of scary just reading that? I’m sure to some people it is pretty scary. It’s not uncommon for many of us to do the same thing day after day. And that turns into week after week, month after month, year after year. And so on and so on and so on….
How To Make Your Year Amazing
Don’t look now but the year is half over. Say what????? How in the world did that happen? Didn’t you just get used to writing the year 2019 on your checks? I’m probably one of the few people that still use checks but you get my point. Anyway, the 4th of July holiday is upon…
Why Is It So Hard To Take Care Of Ourselves
To quote Dennis Leary from back in they day “Look, I don’t wanna go off on a rant here but…..”. This post is probably going to be more of a rant of mine than anything else. You’ve been warned. I was getting increasingly frustrated with my 16 year old daughter today (shocker I know) when…
10 Things To Make You Happy
10 Things To Make You Happy I’ve been really lucky. In general I have been a pretty optimistic person most of my life. I tend to see the good things that come out of challenges. Resilience runs fairly high in my veins. I look at the long view and understand that it takes persistence and…
How To Make People Mad
How To Make People Mad What in the world? Why would someone write an article on how to make people mad? Well, I can’t speak for other people but I had a flash of inspiration the other day regarding how easy it is to make people mad. I realized how easy it is to make…