Check out a fun podcast interview I did with Mike Vardy of EffTD™.

Mike has a great sense of humor and shares it with us in the first portion of the audio, and my interview portion comes in about 1/3 of the way into the podcast.

Here are a couple questions that Mike Vardy of EffTD asked me. Read Post

Do you tend to live in a half wake, half conscious state? Think about it. Do you roll back over in the mornings and hit your snooze a couple times then roll out of bed, head down the hall & make coffee in a half wake state? Check our my three suggestions to help you life more consciously. Read Post

Discussion about slowing down to enjoy life on Sunday, December 23 at 10:30 p.m. EST.  This discussion is led by Kristen Hallows on her blog talk radio show Job You Desire. www.jobyoudeserve.blogspot.com Read Post

Jerry Seinfeld, as told to Brad Isaac, said that: “in order to accomplish something you have to work at it every day.  Get one of those big wall calendars and every day you do the thing that you need work at you put a big red X on it.  If you do it everyday then you will have a chain.  The next step is not breaking the chain.” Donald Trump says to “never, ever give up.”  In getting through life, Drew Barrymore says on the topic: “It’s all just humor; all you have to do is laugh.  Don’t take life so seriously.  Life is like high school, it’s small and everybody talks about everybody, so just laugh.” Read Post

7 Reflections with the Tame Kieves, Author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love.
Summary: Even though Tama graduated from Harvard Law with honors and was working for a prestigious law firm she felt as if there was something more out there and that she wasn’t getting the fulfillment that she needed. The book that she wrote chronicles her search for fulfillment and how she found it. Read Post

Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert, University of Virginia psychologist Tim Wilson, Carnegie-Mellon economist George Loewenstein, and Princeton Psychologist Dan Kahneman have been studying the question: “What makes us really happy or sad, and how do we actually feel after the experience?”  They feel that almost all of our decisions in life are based on the way we think we will feel after the experience. Read Post

The idea for Father’s Day came from a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd who was an only daughter of six children, her mother died in labor, and she helped her father raise her siblings.  She thought of her father, William Jackson Smart who raised the children alone and the first Father’s Day was celebrated in 1910 on June 19th. In 1966 it was proclaimed, by president Lyndon Johnson, that the third Sunday in June was to be celebrated as Father’s Day, and in 1972 Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father’s Day. Read Post

78% of people, who responded to a University of North Carolina survey, as cited in an article titled “Eliminate Workplace Conflict and Improve Productivity,” said that being rude and insensitive in the workplace has increased in the last decade. Most people who responded could give specific examples of when this has affected them at work, some examples of these statistics are: 37% of people said that a conflict caused them to become apathetic towards their work, and 28% didn’t get as much done because they were trying to avoid the person whom they had the conflict with.

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The user Family Man at Build Tomorrow Another Day of Life nominates David Bohl for The Thinking Blogger Award.   The thing is to identify “5 blogs that make me think.”  There are some rules and they are: you get tagged you have to put five links to blogs that make you think,  link in your post so it is easily accessed by others, and, as an option, display the “Thinking Blogger Award” on your page with a link to the post.  Check out the five blogs that make me think. Read Post