Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Quarter-Life Crisis Or Just Complaining?
The worries of young people
“The future,” she said. “My greatest worries are about the future.” Here was another twenty-something woman opening up about what caused her the most worry and here was the exact same answer I had heard from [...]
Not Just A Big Idea
Being an entrepreneur
Imagine, having a dream or waking up to the eureka moment that reveals the best idea since sliced bread. Isn’t that what an entrepreneur is? Not exactly. Although becoming an entrepreneur does occupy many people’s dreams, [...]
Shopping For School
The first day of school
For as long as I can remember, the first day of school was much more than the start of a new grade, or the first time in a new school. It was a time to watch music videos more intently, scour the latest magazines, and [...]
Online Schools: A Safe Alternative to Brick-and-Mortar Universities?
Online education
We cannot turn on the news today without hearing something about an industry that went relatively unnoticed just a few years ago – online education. Online education, and specifically the for-profit education sector, has become [...]
Make Weight Loss Seem Like Magic
When was the last time you felt alive and free?
Chances are, you were engaged with life on your terms, following a dream, participating, contributing, learning, living! It’s at times like these when obsessions with food, weight and body [...]
Blueberry Muffins
It was Sunday night and my family and I were settling in getting ready for another big week.
This week was definitely going to be another busy one, there were dinners to make, money to make, things to clean, kids to clean, laundry to do, essays [...]
Minding the Gap
Lessons from the London underground
When the doors of a train in the London underground open, you hear a booming recorded male computer voice instructing you to ”mind the gap” – the space between the train and the platform. You can get [...]
Overcoming Adversity – The STEPS Formula Part I
What you would do in the face of some terrible event or challenge?
Do you have it within you to survive, recover, and build a new life? This can be tough to do if facing a serious illness, job loss, divorce, etc. – you get the picture. [...]
Maintaining Positivity In Your Life
Accentuate the positive
Hey purty! How do you stay focused on positive family values and lifestyle when the news around you is showing war, rumors of war and often times financial and family crisis? I’m going to share a few tips to help [...]
The Clock Is Ticking
Game on!
Our lives are like stories – they have a beginning, a middle, and an end – just like quarters in a professional football game. The players on both teams are anticipating playing the first quarter with the same tenacity, drive, [...]
Your Child’s Problem Behavior: Using Common Sense to Find the Best Solution
There is an old medical proverb that goes:
“When you hear hoof beats in the hallway, think horses, not zebras.” This means, of course, that we should use common sense and look for the expected cause first, rather than the exotic. This proverb [...]
Stuck On Single?
Unintentionally single?
Have you been unintentionally single for more than a year and desire to be in a meaningful relationship? Unintentionally single meaning that you want to be in a relationship, feel that you make efforts to meet [...]
Midlife Sage-What I Wish I Had Known As A Young Woman
Avoid the muck
Women spend too many years struggling and stressing through all the crap of daily life before they finally realize the aching truth: Damn, I should have taken the path around the bog! That’s the road that avoids the muck and [...]
Positive Mindsets and Lifestyle
Why are you you?
Quantum physics tells us that only you can create your own world with its infinite possibilities. This out of the box- Quantum thinking- reaches into your mind through your thoughts and feelings and creates your reality. As [...]
2012: A New Perspective
Dropping the doomsday mentality
First of all, put down the canned goods. It is NOT, I repeat, IS NOT a time to store any food, bottled water or first aid kits. There is no need for panic or alarm. Rather, take this time to relax, unwind and [...]
One, Two, Three…Fantasy!
The NFL is back in action.
You know what that means! Every wannabe general manager’s wet dream has come true. Fantasy football has arrived. The teams have been drafted, clever names have been chosen and the season’s first smack has been [...]
Spicin’ it Up: Back To School
A speaking event
I was the keynote speaker this past week for the 1200 or so teachers and staff of the Hazelwood School District here in St. Louis. I hadn’t been there for several years and had forgotten how huge it is. I also know I am getting [...]
Settling The Score Between The Sacred and Profane
Religion and hip hop?
Gangster rapper Snoop Dogg is now Rastafarianism – his new name: Snoop Lion. Rick Ross proclaims that God Forgives, I Don’t and Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Frank Ocean declare that there is No Church in the Wild. Despite [...]
Opening Up to Authentic Relationships
A collective consciousness
Our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, words and actions are forms of energy, which has a unique Cause and Effect. Cause and Effect coupled with Balance is when all pieces of the puzzle come together. Although, many people [...]
Getting Beyond the IQ Score
More than IQ score
When I do testing one of my least favorite questions that I inevitably get is, “So what’s his/her IQ?”
In previous blogs, I have tried to illustrate how the IQ can hold a child hostage to not receiving services he/she [...]
The Future of Education
Will MOOCs will replace “traditional” online universities?
This blog entry is based off of a relatively heated Yahoo Forum discussion about what adjuncts and the for-profit education sector can expect as a result of the Massive [...]
Obsessive Love Disorder: When You Can’t Say Goodbye
The Inability to Let-Go After a Break-Up
There is a large amount of attention being paid to the area of moving-on after a break-up in the field of Psychology lately and for very good reason. Many people can’t. The fixation on the former [...]
Can You Change Your Taste Buds?
One of the first things you may have learned in science class is your taste buds’ ability to detect sweet, salty, sour and bitter.
As an adult, you may not think much about the 10,000 taste buds inside your mouth. But they’re there determining [...]
2013: A To-Do List for College Students
Two years ago, I rang in 2011 midway through my senior year of college: a time that, I realize in retrospect, lies somewhere between college and the real world.
During the last year of college, responsibilities are few and far between (financial [...]
How This Out Of Shape Mom Of Teens Became A Half Marathoner
I never ran.
I hated to run. The only time I would run was if I was running away from something. But in my mid-40’s, basically a stay at home mom with two teenagers, I was overweight, unhealthy with high cholesterol and high blood pressure [...]
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