This week’s post was written by my cousin, Valerie Alexander. Last week, I mentioned that I bought and installed blackout curtains in our bedroom. This has been a huge improvement in keeping mornings a bit more sacred, and also in blocking out both streetlights and noise at night. All in all, a huge win. Except…
Time to Re-Energize!Time to Re-Energize! You would think that after some time off and at the start of a new year, we’d all be raring and ready to go. I don’t know about you, but after the holidays and family, I still feel like I’m in a daze. It’s time to come back and grab…
Well, we did it. In just under 6 weeks, we decided we were going to move, put the house on the market, (sold it in just under a day), found a new house, packed, closed on both houses, moved out of one and into the other, unpacked, and started trying to return to some semblance…
Gratitude, Expectations, and Ray WylieGratitude, Expectations, and Ray WylieGratitude, Expectations, and Ray Wylie In one of my favorite lyrics, musician Ray Wylie Hubbard (@RayWylie) says, “The days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, those are good days.” I think it goes without saying that gratitude is an amazing “happiness strategy”. Check out this…
According to author and speaker John Maxwell, over 90% of leadership occurs, not from the top, but from the middle of the organization. What kind of leader are you? In his book Leading Change, John Kotter tells a story about three groups in a park at lunchtime with a rainstorm threatening. In the first group,…