Want to learn something shocking? "The average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day. The average 40-year-old? Only four," writes Harvard professor Dr. Pamela Gerloff in "You're Not Laughing Enough, and That's No Joke." That's shocking! Zen Buddhists believe that if you start the day with a laugh, you’ll be fine the rest of the day. Maya Angelou, a wise woman if ever there was one, said "I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh." And a Yiddish proverb advises us, “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” We all intuitively … [Read more...]
Like Songs, Leaders Can Produce Earworms
April 18, 2016
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I woke up today with an earworm. It’s driving me nuts. No doubt you’ve experienced annoying earworms too. You know, that “little fragment, often a bit of the chorus of the song, that just plays and replays like it's stuck on loop in your head,” explains Elizabeth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas and author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind. Researchers have found that over 91% of us get a song stuck in our minds—earworms—at least once a week. The term "earworm" originally comes from a … [Read more...]
Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal: C.L. Murphy
April 11, 2016
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A 2014 Mom's Choice Gold Award winning author and illustrator, C.L. Murphy (Cathy) has been doodling her way through life since she won a school wide poster contest in the third grade. Working as an artist in residence, creating cartoons and painting murals with the children at local elementary schools, C.L. filed away her picture book ideas away for years. Fortunately for us and the children we love, the reality of "empty nest syndrome" sunk in: C.L. brought her dreams to fruition in the character, Lovable Lobo. THE ADVENTURES OF LOVABLE … [Read more...]
Leadership Dirty Laundry: Advice from a Stain-Removal Expert
April 4, 2016
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I’m always amazed when someone tells me that s/he loves doing laundry. Mary Hunt, Founder of Debt-Free Living and a syndicated newspaper columnist, is one such laundry-loving fanatic. “Oh, the joy of doing laundry effectively,” writes Hunt in her Everyday Cheapskate column. While she says she loves the entire laundry process, she especially loves getting stains out. Generally, Mary tells us to try a lot of stain removal products: “experiment” and do “research.” Most importantly, Hunt says, if you “get serious about stain removal and … [Read more...]
I’m a Fearless Female and You Can Be Too: Sharon Ann Magnus
March 28, 2016
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Sharon Ann Magnus, " I AM a Fearless Female and you can be too." Sharon Ann Magnus shares herstory of losing a legal battle but winning the war for herself, her truth, and her future as a Fearless Female. It takes courage to challenge a misogynistic, culturally dysfunctional and destructive working environment. Sharon writes that the battle left her isolated and bullied out of a position that she was passionate about: serving as a Specialist Crime Trainer. Sharon's Herstory I was a decorated and long-standing passionate detective. I … [Read more...]
