The sun reached its nadir on Monday at 5:02 AM (EST) while most of us were warmly tucked into bed and dreaming perhaps of a different kind of holiday celebration during this awkward year of 2020. My wife was not one of us. As she has done in previous years she awoke early to meditate […]
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Go ahead, take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh. That feels better, doesn’t it? Go ahead and do it again. We all deserve it. 2020 will be known as the Year of the Breath First, the Corona virus, with deadly consequences, took too many people’s ability to breathe away from them
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I’ve been meeting with a team of business leaders to discuss their professional development. As we conduct our initial evaluation, most of them want to focus on how to improve what they see as their most glaring weaknesses. While I point out that improving a weakness is a worthy task, there may be a better
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As I’ve written before, Thanksgiving is the most psychologically powerful holiday we celebrate as we recognize and express gratitude for the blessings in our lives. Even in the strangest of years, we’ll find plenty of ways to express our appreciations for the many good things in our lives. For myself, I have sometimes noticed that
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Two great challenges have confronted us in 2020. The global pandemic and our presidential election. We have essentially resolved one of them and while the other seems to be worsening, there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel as both Pfizer and Moderna announced virus breakthroughs. We do, however had a
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So, what has been your favorite Pandemic food? Eating at home, for us, over the past 6 months has allowed us to try out some new menu items but has also created a certain ritual of the tried and true regulars that we have to enjoy every week. For us, it has been Broccolini,
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The American Psychological Association recently asked people about the level of stress over this election and close to 70% reported it was significant, well above the 52% from 4 years ago. This, of course, has gotten the media into a frenzy with psychologists defining a new disorder now known as “Election Stress Disorder.” Along with
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My wife was concerned that the potatoes she put in boiling water to mash were taking longer than the traditional 20 minutes to soften properly. I suggested to her that she may have cut them a bit too big and that the heat had just not fully penetrated all the way through, providing what I
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Back in February I wrote about the car accident I was in when someone broadsided and totaled my car. I mentioned about how quickly the police and fire fighters were on the scene and how they checked me out for any physical damage. While not having any physical hurt, I was very upset about the
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I know what you are thinking! “Why would I want to honor 2020? I want my memories of 2020 to go away. We are still 79 days away from 2021 and we might be facing the toughest part of this incredibly challenging year over those next few weeks!!” The notion of honoring this year is
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