My first “real” job post college graduation was in retail management. If there’s any place that desperately needs keystone habits and clearly defined systems and routines, it’s a retail establishment with primarily low-wage and high turnover employees. I was an assistant store manager for a now-defunct mid-level retailer. (Anyone remember Mervyn’s? If not, think of …
Do you have any big lifetime bucket list items? I’ve got a few. One of these bucket list goals is to go to all 50 states by the time I am 50. I set this goal in college, after a friend had a goal of all 50 states by the time she was 30 (and …
Happy New Year! I’m more excited about starting 2018 than I have been at the beginning of the last several years. Goodbye, 2017 While I ended the year on a good note, 2017 was a rough one. The year held some unexpected tough situations over which I had little or no control. For 2017, my …
Published: early December 2017. We’re now well into 2018, so I hope you have 2018 goals set and in progress! In the last few years, it feels like the urgency of planning for the following year is starting earlier and earlier. This year, I started seeing a whole lot of “planning and goal setting for …
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Our boys ran their first race recently – a one mile fun run. They started out strong, and kept up the pace surprisingly well. Not so surprisingly, they both hit a point where they were tired and slowed down. The four year old may have even sat down on the grass at the side of …
