Add “New” to Fire Up! Your Life
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Get Fired Up By Handling Incompletions Right now, examine your life. How many projects are you working on simultaneously? How many books have you started and not finished? How about unfinished articles you are reading or writing? All of those are incompletions! Incompletions drain large amounts of energy and actually create stress. Anything from half-read newspaper…
Music Can Also Fire You Up! A 2006 Journal of Advanced Nursing study showed that listening to music one hour a day for a week reduced symptoms of depression by 25%. Music, especially classical music, can also serve as a powerful stress-relief tool. Listening to Pachelbel’s famous Canon in D major while preparing to speak…
At this time of the year, it is easy to get wrapped up in buy, buy, buy. And that is neither smart nor economical. Through the years, the gifts that have had the most meaning to my loved ones have always been gifts from the heart. So what does that mean? What does giving from…
Minimize the Stress of Conflict with Better Communication So often when colleagues are disagreeing with each other, they rarely listen to what the other is saying. In today’s world, we are all so busy, it’s rare that people give each other their undivided attention. To help diffuse a potentially volatile situation, do the following for…
Why Are You Comparing Yourself? “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt This is so true. Why do we as humans spend so much time comparing ourselves to others. I remember as a child that phrase “Keeping up with the Jones.” One of my childhood friends had gotten a swimming pool and everyone else…
Do Your Emails Come Across as Rude? Apparently, how you start and end your emails makes a big difference. You may think that sending a quick, curt response without saying Hello or Thank You is the best way to work. But that’s not true. Data scientists at Boomerang reviewed some 350,000 emails and found that…