New Year’s Resolutions

4 Resolutions for the New Year

1.     Get sufficient sleep

2.     Honor your word

3.     Learn something new every day

4.     Exercise

Sleep

For teenagers and kids: Are you subject to the Teenage Sleep Trap. It starts the day school gets out. You stay up a little later than usual and sleep in a little later than usual. By the time the first week of vacation is complete, you have reversed the day.  You sleep during the morning hours and play while everyone else is asleep. Ever wonder why you are so tired during vacation? Now you know.

The Spirit of Christmas

The Spirit of Christmas

Christmas has a unique spirit. The air tastes different. The songs are different and people treat each other differently. What makes this season so magical? The spirit of Christmas has the capacity to change men.

Charles Dickens in his A Christmas Carol said of Scrooge:

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have to have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind any way, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

Are You Listening?

Are you listening?

Our sense of hearing is a remarkable system. There is so much noise going on around each of us that it is impossible to listen to everything. We hear it all, but listening is different.

Listening means you are present for that moment in time. Energy in the form of thinking exists which is an activity practiced less and less. Thinking is a requisite to problem solving.

What is Your Accent

What is your Accent?

Have you ever been to England? It’s a pleasure listening to a British or an Aussie accent. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to spend in week in the British Isles. It was interesting to notice who spoke with an accent.

What is your accent? Is there somebody at your work or in your circle of influence that is always the center of bad news? Do you hesitate ever asking them how they’re doing for fear they will tell you. They are always suffering from some …itis and the law of attraction consolidates an aura of negativity upon their space.