Weekly Round Up Feb 20...

Thank you for coming back to visit, Have you signed up for my newsletter to receive business and blogging tips? the sign up box is on the right. Happy Friday to you. It is great to see you stop by.  I hope your Friday is going smoothly. If your new here welcome. I hope you decide to hop in to our Weekly Round Up. Just use the comment box for your answers or add them to your own blog. A link back would be nice but not...

When Stress is a Good Thing...

Stress can be good? No way! It’s true. Sometimes stress is a powerful motivator that propels us forward to great things. Find out how stress can actually work in your favor. Stress has always carried a negative connotation. If you are stressed it is often because of a bad situation. But, there are a few times that we are glad for the stress response. Good instances of stress can be termed, eustress. The prefix...

Take This Job and Love It...

There’s nothing like waking up on a Monday morning and looking forward to heading off to work. What? You can’t relate? Don’t despair – you can learn to take this job and love it by following some of these tips. 1. To thine old self be true, as William Shakespeare said. If you know what your strengths and passions are, you will be able to look for a job that you can enjoy. If you’re already...

Weekly Round Up Feb 13...

Happy Friday all.  I hope you had a good week. Also a Happy Valentines Day. It is great to have you stop by. What we do is basically share a little about our week, the good the bad and the unexpected with this short little meme. We hope you join in the the fun. Feel free to leave a comment with your answers or if you would prefer answer on your Blog and link back to this post so we can drop by and see how your week...

5 Tips for Handling Conflict...

If you live long enough you will experience conflict. Everyone won’t like us or get along with us. Inevitably we will disagree with someone. When this happens, handling the conflict with a level head avoids stress. Handling conflict does not have to be confrontational in the classic sense. When someone mentions an altercation we think of the showdown at the OK Corral. Coming into the meeting ready to fight is not the...

A House full of sick People and How to Break a Fev...

Well here I am sitting in the living, the second day this week I have had to call Ned and have him pick up a kiddo on his way home from work. First it was Brendan on Tuesday and today its Jeff.  Both schools called with ‘You need to pick him up he is running a fever’, Since DH is close to home it was easier to have him stop and pick them up. Brendan is home because he has a viral infection waiting results...

Dress Code: Meaning and Messages in American Cultu...

Did you ever wonder where the term “dress code” originated? Who decides what dress code is appropriate? This book is very enlightening and touches both of those questions and much more. The unwritten but understood dress code is one that distinguishes classes. Our culture is one that has a continuously changing dress code. The way we dress changes from childhood to adult hood, although some adults refuse to...