Reminisce
I've spent a portion of this holiday weekend going through old photos, programs and other family memorabilia. Inspired by a speaker I...
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Be a learner
Whether students near you started school two weeks ago or still have two weeks of summer vacation left, back-to-school fever is high....
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Count your blessings
As I write this, I'm ready to head back to work after a 9-day break. I'm looking forward to it. Really. I like my job. My boss. The...
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Remember the highs
"How was your vacation?" Dad asked. "Hot," I replied, and then immediately regretted it. We just had four days away as a family in our...
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Acknowledge your feelings
This summer has been a bit of a butt-kicker in the Myers house. A week or two after my daughter was sick with a virus that brought with...
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Get back to basics
They were our best yard sale customers of the day. They bought a picnic quilt from my mom. Then some toys. Then they picked out some...
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Compartmentalize
When I was a college freshman, a simple reading assignment could take hours. I would read a little, chat a little, read a little, eat a...
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Assume positive intent
“You screwed up.“ Ouch. That’s a rough way to start an email. I wasn’t the recipient, yet I was feeling defensive. I didn't even know the...
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Choose happiness
One of my best dresses? Check. Good breakfast? Check. Research? Visual aids? Slide advancer? Check. Check. Check. I was ready. I had...
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Invest in ease
"Money can't buy happiness." I've heard it. I've said it. I believe it. But money can make life a bit easier. There's the big stuff, of...
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Improve your questions
"How are you?" "Good. How are you?" "Good, thanks." Now what? Lots of conversations start that way and quickly go nowhere. You haven't...
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Shift to gratitude
"You've got holes in another pair of jeans?! How many is that?" If you were walking down our street recently, you likely would have heard...
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Recall past successes
My daughter was acting uncharacteristically jumpy and frenetic. It was confusing and annoying until I asked her what was really going on....
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Take a deep breath
Earlier this week a computer I was working on stopped responding. The screen froze. The little wheel was spinning, spinning, spinning. My...
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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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Make it a great day
I roll my eyes when I need to leave a voicemail for someone and at the end of her outgoing voicemail she says, "Make it a great day!" It...
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Revisit an old hobby
I wrote a lot papers in high school. A lot. Our English department had a rigorous curriculum and very high standards, and since I had an...
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Use the good stuff
Life is too short to use crappy pens. Yet there was a time I would save the best pens for only certain occasions or a certain type of...
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Change it up
We are creatures of habit. I may be worse than most. As someone with a continual emphasis on productivity, I am a proponent of creating...
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Let time pass
Time heals all wounds, right? Well, not exactly. It's one of those aphorisms that doesn't quite ring true for everyone. Some people are...
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