The hustle and bustle of the Holiday season was interrupted here in LA yesterday morning with the tragic shooting rampage just blocks from my apartment. Perhaps you saw the video on the news. S-C-A-R-Y.
And since a stop at the FedEx office smack dab in the middle of the crime zone was on my list of errands yesterday, had I not taken a wee bit longer…
Both of my parents were the children of coal miners and grew up quite poor in northeastern Pennsylvania. I remember my mother always praising and supporting the Salvation Army because without the food baskets this organization delivered to her family’s doorstep, she and her brother wouldn’t have experienced any type of Thanksgiving abundance.
So I was very interested in a recent LA Times editorial by John Arnold…
Hi. My name is Mary and I suffer from Bright Shiny Object Syndrome (BSOS).
Maybe you do, too.
If you’ve ever had trouble focusing, tend to be easily distracted, or move from project-to-project without really completing any of them, then you know what I’m talking about.
You have a great idea, you’re all excited, you start working on it, but then…oh, look!
There’s another Bright Shiny Object over there.
And…
A few years ago, Martin Lindstrom, author of buy*ology, invited 600 women into a room to conduct a little experiment. He hooked them up to monitors and then brought out a bunch of Tiffany-blue colored boxes. And, lo and behold, the women’s heart rates immediately jumped 20%!
Now there was absolutely nothing in those boxes. They were all empty. But that didn’t matter. Good ol’ Tiffany’s…
Feeling crabby? Not me. Not today. The sun is shining and I’m heading home to visit family tomorrow. But like you, I’ve been known to wake up on the wrong side of the bed occasionally. And if you’re not careful and nip it in the bud that crabby feeling can last all day.
But what’s so great is that we get to control our moods. That’s…
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