A few days ago I was browsing social media and I saw a post that changed my perspective on the pandemic. It said, “Before you rush back to normal, consider the “normal” you are rushing back to.” In a matter of moments, I was rethinking everything I had been striving...
Loneliness and isolation, yuck! We all know these are not good feelings. Yet they are feelings we will all most likely experience at some time or another in our lives, especially during or after a pandemic! The feelings of loneliness and isolation can leave us feeling...
After leaving a fifteen-year career in finance where I commuted about thirty minutes to a very plain-vanilla looking office every day, I found myself suddenly working from home. Although I loved my new found freedom, I quickly learned I could piddle away the day all...
Note to All Governors: Be the Leader You Were Elected to Be. Shutting Down States Was an Extreme Overreaction and May Kill More People than the Coronavirus. On Friday, our Governor, Gregg Abbott began the "reopen" process for Texas. He created a process called "retail...
"Change is the only constant in life." This quote comes from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived 500 years before Jesus Christ. Think of the amount of change that has occurred in our world in over 25-hundred years! The earth has changed, wars fought, empires...
Stress is not all bad or all good. We all have good and bad stressors in our lives. Positive stress helps us accomplish our goals and achieve tasks, while negative stress tends to spike our anxiety and cause discouragement. Today we are going to walk through the ways...
Part of what makes me a good assistant is that I am a huge planner. I approach every situation with multiple plans. I am always discussing plans with our CEO a couple of months out, I triple check EVERYTHING, and I like to be prepared for every possible scenario. This...
Do you work to live or live to work? My Aunt and Uncle moved to Virginia a couple of years ago and they said the biggest culture difference was that people there work to live. Meaning they work so that they can enjoy life. I am guilty of living to work. I have put my...
Do you remember when we had to carry our iPod or Zune ( Microsoft tried), digital camera, and our Razor flip phone everywhere we went? Now we have all of those things compiled into one device. The world has become a lot smaller due to the advances in technology (it is...