Coping With Negative Emotions

A message from Sandy. It’s a fact of life–in order to succeed we need to know how to interact and communicate effectively with our team, boss, patients, and teammates. As we all know, sometimes finding the right words to express ourselves is difficult, and communications can come to a screeching halt. This can leave you feeling irritable, [...]

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What Are Self-Management Skills?

A message from Sandy. Self-management skills are those abilities that allow a person or team member to feel more productive when doing daily routine tasks, regardless of your work environment. Well-developed self-management skills will help you efficiently communicate with co-workers, patients, and family; help you make the right decisions, plan your working time, and keep [...]

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A STRANGE LITTLE RIDDLE – Part 1

Riddles are an interesting combination of humor, logic and the ability to think outside the box. Normal, everyday thinking is rarely enough to crack the mystery of a good riddle. Of course, some riddles are simply silly. But many of the best of them help us to look at familiar things in a whole new [...]

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HOLDING ON, LETTING GO

Some of us seem to go through life like magnets, attracting object after object to ourselves, and never letting go of anything.  Drawers fill up, shelves fill up, boxes fill up, car trunks fill up, closets fill up, cupboards fill up, garages fill up… Sometimes, personal belongings are the problem. Other times, it’s the relentless [...]

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Up Close and Personal

A message from Terry:  Have you noticed how impersonal the world is becoming?  When you call a company, you may have to beep your way through a forested of automated messages and prompts before you can reach a human being. At the grocery store, more and more self-checkout lanes are being installed.  At the bank, [...]

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The Value Of Listening

A message from Sandy. Edgar Watson Howe once joked, ” No man would listen to you talk if he didn’t know it was his turn next.” Unfortunately, that accurately describes the way to many people approach communication–they are too busy waiting for their turn to really listen to others. People of influence understand the incredible [...]

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Wisdom of Wolves

A message from Sandy. It’s a society where teamwork, loyalty and communication is the norm rather than the exception. Sound like utopia? Not for wolves, those in the pack exist for each other. In the book  ” Wisdom of Wolves,” by Twyman Towery PhD., he shares the lessons of leadership from nature, specifically—wolves. Who knew [...]

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You Believe WHAT?

A message from Sandy. Beliefs. They’re only valid when they belong to us. Beliefs can be positive or self-limiting, and possibly dangerous at times. Our environment, schooling, friends and experiences shape our belief system. Since these factors are unique, no two people on this planet share identical beliefs. For this reason it is important to [...]

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LIFE’S LITTLE PLEASURES

“Little things console us because little things afflict us.” Blaise Pascal A message from Terry: Occasionally, life serves up an earth-shaking event to delight us: a birth, a wedding, a big lottery win, a vacation to an exotic locale. More often, however, the flavor of our days is improved by much smaller phenomena: a smile, [...]

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Selective Amnesia

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” – Ingrid Bergman A message from Terry: As this busy year winds toward its end, it seems like we have a million things to remember. As the final days count down, we’re torn between the desire to contemplate visions of sugar plums and the pressing need to grapple [...]

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