Accept help
When I go to baby showers and the hostess asks us to write down advice for the mom-to-be, I share two thoughts: (1) Sleep when the baby...
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Be quiet
I live a loud life. I have two kids who seem to think they'll get bonus points for making the most noise. Although I have my own office,...
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Question your jealousy
I have a few friends of whom I'm consistently envious. Why? They go to concerts, festivals, vacations; they see shows and movies; they...
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Write your obituary
My mom is the sixth child in a family of twelve, so my grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary many years ago was quite an...
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Prepare for the worst
It’s my worst nightmare...speaking in front of an audience that slowly get smaller and smaller. Person after person standing up and...
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Stand firm
"No, I won't send that." "Why not?" "Because it's unfair to our members, who have paid a lot of money for those materials. And it's a...
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Go with the flow
I spend a lot of time trying to convince others not to argue with reality, because it's a fight they'll never win. I've repeatedly urged...
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Focus on the goal
My favorite weekend in 2017 was the one during which I was the host of our local game show, The Right Price. It was an amazing operation,...
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Do what you can
We had a large tree taken down in front of our house. So did one of our neighbors, who didn't want all the logs that were left behind....
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Review the game film
Did you ever have one of those days on which you are so sad to learn that something your daughter and a friend worked really hard for...
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Get the facts
It's happened to most of us... You hear something, you believe it, you repeat it, and then you find out it isn't true. And you either...
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Trust your gut
I was having trouble with QuickBooks and had to ask a co-worker to help me determine whether an invoice had been paid. It had been, so I...
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Commit
"I, Christin, pledge to myself and to my family, for which I stand, that for one day I will unplug it, power it off and shut it down, in...
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Keep it to yourself
"That woman just ordered coffee with nine creamers!" one employee exclaimed to the other. My eyes opened wide. Not because of the number...
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Know the signs
"I'm stress eating," my daughter said as she was about to start in on her fourth slice of pizza. As soon as the words were out of her...
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Request feedback
Which question would you be more likely to answer honestly? "Is there anything I could done better?" or "What could I have done better?"...
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Receive the feedback
Do you believe that feedback is a gift? I do. But wow, it is a gift that's hard to receive sometimes, isn't it? I recently received...
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Decide
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile." - Bertrand Russell I agree, Bertrand. I see it in others all the...
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Stop talking about yourself
I'm so embarrassed. My best friend just became a grandmother. I am beyond excited for her! Yet somehow in our text conversations while...
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Begin again
This is the first year I haven't written resolutions. Instead, I'm working on my 18 in 2018 list, as suggested on the Happier podcast. It...
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