Life Of E's

When you see that a magazine or a website has ‘before and after’ pictures, don’t you always want to check that out first?  We all love to see what someone looked like ‘before’ and what that person looks like ‘after.’  What about the sheer number of shows on TV that show what a house, room, [...]

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If I asked you if you consider yourself smart, my guess is you’d have an answer right away. If I asked you if you consider yourself creative, you would probably hem and haw and eventually get around to an answer (I know because I have asked these two questions of many groups). Let me give [...]

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Knowing what your strengths are and then working through your strengths will change your business and professional life. Here are three books worth reading (and I have read them more times than I can count). Now, Discover Your Strengths – Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton I cannot recommend this book enough and even though [...]

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Faculty members don’t get behind in their grading until after the semester gets started, however there are distinct measures you can take BEFORE the semester gets started that will help you avoid getting behind. 1. Make sure that you have a planner (either paper or digital) that shows all of your major commitments throughout the [...]

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If you are like most teachers, you may have some clutter lurking in your classroom – and let’s start with your desk. Look at that big drawer in the lower right- or left-hand side of your desk – the one where files are supposed to go.  To use that drawer for its intended purpose, you will [...]

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How can you stay in the present (mentally) – or get to the present? Here are 5 strategies: Breathe. The idea is that you breathe in. Then you breathe out. This helps you to get centered – and somewhere I read that the space between breathing in and breathing out – that’s the present. So [...]

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Human beings love to achieve…to set goals and to reach those goals. It’s motivating. Use that to your advantage when you are cleaning, clearing, decluttering – and of course, destressing. Make a VOW to rid yourself of a certain amount, number, or percentage of your ‘stuff,’ whether your stuff is books, papers, files, cans, emails, [...]

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What if you want to eat and snack in a healthy manner? Does that mean no more good stuff? And why should you care about this? Snacking at work can be one of the biggest productivity downfalls for three reasons: We DON’T eat at all – and then because we’re starving, we eat half the [...]

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Let us say that you have decided to close the door to negative people (figuratively, of course). What is tough about this decision is that sometimes the negative people work in our offices (or live in our homes or are related to us in some way). Deciding to “close the door” on the people who [...]

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“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan In life, “A door must either be shut or open.” (Anonymous); I think that means we need to determine which doors we [...]

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