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Underlying Issues

Underlying Issues

Personal note In Minneapolis, as in much of the country, we are sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave.  This Northern city, which was once a choice vacation spot for Southerners hoping to escape the heat in the South, has posted numerous temperatures in the high...
Be your own best caretaker

Be your own best caretaker

Taking care of other people can be a kind and charitable act.  We now know that acts of kindness can physically affect our well-being as well as being psychologically heart-warming. Altruistic emotions – the “helper’s high” – seem to gain dominance...
Be a Good Samaritan and Reduce Your Stress

Be a Good Samaritan and Reduce Your Stress

Personal note The normal chaos of everyday life has continued in the past week, and I have had an excellent opportunity to add more coping skills to my repertory. The inspiration for today’s article came on a particularly busy (and frustrating) day, when obstacles...
Evaluating Other People

Evaluating Other People

Personal note This has been the last week leading up to my new seminar, “Expand Your Time, Tame Your Tension … and Expand Your Life!”. It has been filled with a myriad of opportunities to practice what I teach – remaining serene and focused when social hurricanes...
What are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?

Personal note For several years, I have been calling myself, with some embarrassment, “The Stress Solutions Expert Who Had a Heart Attack.”  I learned a lot from the event that I would not have learned otherwise, and now I can share it with the world. In the past two...
Planning to take a risk

Planning to take a risk

Personal note This has been an exciting time, stepping out to meet with different women’s groups, such as the Women’s Health Leadership TRUST, Magnetic Women Networking Group,  Women Speakers’ Association, and more.  During these meetings  I have met so many different...
Why take a risk?

Why take a risk?

Personal note These last two weeks have been filled with many opportunities to meet new  people and to share with them the exciting things I am doing. As I did so, I reflected upon my past, when I was so shy that the patterns on the wallpaper made more impact on a...
Movement is good for you

Movement is good for you

Personal note The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of meeting new people at networking events:  The Women’s Business Exchange, Magnetic Women  Business Networking, The Twin Cities Human Resources Association, Women in Networking, and Women of Words. In each case,...
Hassles and the havoc they can create

Hassles and the havoc they can create

Personal note A full week for me, attending the “High Heels, Higher Heights” conference of Women’s Health Leadership TRUST with roughly 800 excited and capable women in the health care industry, then meeting the dedicated small business group at the Woman’s Club...