Monday Motivation
Monday musings on maintaining mental stability: I may discuss topics such as how to stay positive in a world of negativity; methods for making guilt-free decisions in our daily lives; being grateful for what we have vs. getting angry at everything else. No topic is too sensitive for discussion when you are on the edge.
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, and Blessed New Year!
This is a Facebook post that I published last week and it seems like the perfect thing to share on Christmas Day… “As we are in the midst of the holiday season, both secular and non-secular, I notice an increase in religious judgments on social media. So I’m just going to put this gentle reminder here today…less than 1/3 of the world’s population identifies as Christian which means more than 2/3 of the people in the world are not Christian. No one religion is the right one for everyone. Please respect that and may all of your days be blessed. Happy holidays to one and all no matter how or…
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How to Start a Meaningful Life-Enhancing Small Business
Launching a small business gives you the opportunity to fulfill your personal and professional ambitions but choosing to run a meaningful business can transform every aspect of your life. As well as giving you an added sense of purpose, a meaningful enterprise can increase your job satisfaction and enable you to have a positive impact on the world around you. You might already be aware of some of the required necessities of running a business. If you have decided to open a healthcare practice for example, then you will know which regulations to follow and which resources to implement, such as revenue cycle management behavioral health software. But it is important to…
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4 Tips for Sundays to Prepare for the Work Week
Whether you work from home or outside of your house, many people dread the arrival of Mondays and the transition back to the weekly work grind. If you are in this category of people, you are hardly alone in your struggle. You would be hard pressed to find someone who prefers the rigidity of a structured work week over the easy, relaxed nature of the weekends. Unfortunately, there is no way around having to resume your work week every Monday. But you can make the transition easier by preparing adequately for the upcoming week. Consider the following four tips to help ease you into the work week with much less stress…
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9 Guidelines for Effective Communication
*I recently wrote this article for publication on Medium, but thought the content was worthy sharing here especially since the overarching theme of my 9 guidelines is kindness in communication. But if you don’t mind clicking over to the original article on Medium and giving it a read and a clap on that platform, I would really appreciate it! That is how I generate some income from my writing. It is all based on read time and claps and is a great way to make a little extra income doing what I love…writing (and communicating). 9 Guidelines for Effective Communication I have always been fascinated by the way people communicate…
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Monday Motivation: Love Your Body, It’s the Only One You’ve Got & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #184
Last June, my dear friend Monica of Jersey Girl, Texan Heart asked me if I would share a post for her Monday Motivation Series about building body positivity. And since I am heading to the Finger Lakes for the weekend and have no other content planned, I figured I would share the same post here on my blog as well. Plus this post features the gold dress that I shared in this month’s Good Buy/Good-Bye Book and I have never shared the full photo shoot of this dress on my blog before. So here we go… Love Your Body, It’s the Only One You’ve Got It took me a long…
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Maybe It’s Time We Listen
I feel like someone stole my rose colored glasses. Ripped them right off my face, threw to them ground, and stomped on them until they were nothing but a pile of shattered plastic. But I think I probably deserved it. I have been hiding behind those things for my entire life. Refusing to acknowledge what my fancy lenses were concealing. I suppose it is time to stop hiding and start educating myself on the injustices in our world today. My friend Debbie recently wrote in a post on a similar topic, “In my bubble, I love people because of who they are…what type of human being they are. For me, things…
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Breaking Patterns to Heal the Cosmos
“Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don’t interrupt our patterns even slightly.” Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You Sometimes we need to break our patterns. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we are stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. Sometimes it takes a massive wake up call on a global scale to offer some perspective and insight into our own lives as well as our collective existence in a universal scheme that is much larger than us. It is a rare occurrence when the universe offers a very clear picture illustrating just how much the microcosm has fallen out of sync with the macrocosm.…
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Women Inspiring Women with Dresslily
Widespread celebrations of women as a gender began in New York City in February of 1909 and became the focal point for the women’s rights movement. Soviet Russia declared March 8 as the official women’s day in support of the newly found women’s suffrage in 1917. Fifty years later, the worldwide feminist movement adopted the idea in 1967. By 1975, the United Nations declared March 8 as International Women’s Day, a day for commemorating the role of women in the workforce or working women in general. Some people acknowledge this day in protest while others simply celebrate womanhood. (Source) Each year, the United Nations chooses a theme to coincide with…
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The Importance of Sustainability When Clothes Shopping
The part of our brains that helps us coordinate our outfits and the part of our brains that contemplates the idea of long-term environmental threats are probably not working in harmony together. Because these compartments are so disconnected, it is difficult for us to even process the idea that being uninformed in choosing which brands to support could be responsible for over one thousand lives lost in the 2019 heatwave in France. And even in our apparent denial, the evidence keeps surfacing which indicates that our industries are negatively impacting our environment and our climate. While a large amount of people already embracing green initiatives, such as bags for life…
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The Importance of Making Changes
Have you ever felt like you are stuck in a loop of the mundane? Like nothing is really improving or moving forward? Feeling kind of…stagnant? This is a normal wave in the ocean of life, the waxing and waning of the tide. And it is times like these when we are forced to reevaluate the way things are, the way we do things, and where we want to be going. These are the times when changes are important. Life Changes to Improve Your Mood If you simply have not been feeling great lately, maybe it is time to make some changes. Getting trapped in the same routine or feeling burdened…
