November 2015

Monday Moment: Get some perspective

As you get back to your routine this morning, a gentle reminder that you can make things more or less challenging depending on how you view them. Yes, it’s Monday, and a post-holiday Monday for many, but you can do this. May you find many reasons to be optimistic this week.

Monday Moment: Peace in chaos

Good morning! We’re starting this week off with a reminder that our peace comes from within. Cultivating our own internal sense of calm, perhaps using mindfulness as a set of tools for doing so, enables us to weather the storms around us, and maybe even empower others to do the same. May we all have a peaceful week.

Thx

Chances are, when you were a kid, someone raised you right and taught you to say “thank you” when someone did something nice for you. If you forgot, you got a little (or not so little) nudge from the grown-up side to do so. As adults, most of us are pretty good at remembering to …

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Livin’ on the edge

A few years ago, Stanford lecturer Kelly McGonigal gave a TED Talk about stress. It wasn’t the first, and it surely hasn’t been the last, but her message stood out. In her talk, McGonigal cited research that proposed that stress might actually be good for you. In a nutshell, the research showed that the degenerative effects …

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