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Food in Jars - A Canning Blog. The 'Busy' Trap. Anxiety: We worry.
A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this; it’s something we collectively force one another to do. Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired.
Brecht Vandenbroucke Even children are busy now, scheduled down to the half-hour with classes and extracurricular activities. The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership. 12 Things You Should Be Able to Say About Yourself. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West You know you’re on the right track when you can repeat each of the following headlines to yourself, honestly.
(And if you can’t, this list gives you something positive to work on.) 1. I am following my heart and intuition. Don’t be pushed by your problems. Each of us has a fire in our hearts burning for something. And as you strive to achieve your goals, you can count on there being some fairly substantial disappointments along the way. 2. You are your own best friend and your own biggest critic. People who are proud of themselves tend to have passions in life, feel content and set good examples for others. How Resilient Are You? Take this test to find out. posted Aug 13, 2010 Your Score: Compare your score:70 or higher = Leading the way to more resilient communities!
It Ain't Over: The Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades. One of the reasons I started my website was so that women could have a place to come together and dream.
Women should know that they don’t have to hold on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them — that there is always time to start a new dream. This week’s story is about 9 women who have kept a very sweet secret for more than 30 years. -– Marlo, MarloThomas.com Somewhere in West Tennessee, not far from Graceland, nine women — or “The 9 Nanas,” as they prefer to be called — gather in the darkness of night. At 4am they begin their daily routine — a ritual that no one, not even their husbands, knew about for 30 years.
They have one mission and one mission only: to create happiness. “One of us starts sifting the flour and another washing the eggs,” explained Nana Mary Ellen, the appointed spokesperson for their secret society. “But you make sure to say Nana Pearl is in charge, because she’s the oldest!” So the ladies began brainstorming. From scrubbing floors to Ivy League: Homeless student to go to dream college. Dawn Loggins, 18, was abandoned last year and left homelessStaff at Burns High School in North Carolina chipped in to helpDawn applied to 5 colleges and was accepted to each, including her dream schoolDawn worked as school janitor between her studies to make ends meet Lawndale, North Carolina (CNN) -- It's before sunrise, and the janitor at Burns High School has already been down the length of a hallway, cleaning and sweeping classrooms before the day begins.
This particular janitor is painstakingly methodical, even as she administers a mental quiz on an upcoming test. Her name is Dawn Loggins, a straight-A senior at the very school she cleans. On this day, she maneuvers a long-handled push broom between rows of desks. She stops to pick up a hardened, chewed piece of gum. The worst, she says, is snuff cans in urinals. With her long, straight dark blonde hair and black-rimmed glasses, Dawn looks a bit like Avril Lavigne.
Social Issues. Toolbox: Skills and Tools. Living Well. Doing Good. Combating "Compassion Fatigue" and Other Reporting Challenges. We’ve all heard the old saw that “one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.”
It’s the guiding principle of public relations for those engaged in building support for humanitarian causes. In fact, it’s more than a principle; it’s an inescapable truth. Social psychologist Paul Slovic got an inkling of this some years back when he showed test subjects two photographs. The first depicted eight children in need of $300,000 for life-saving medical care.
The second showed a single child who needed $300,000 for medical bills. In later research, Slovic showed three photos to participants: a starving African girl, a starving African boy, and a photo of both of them together. When I reported from Russia in the 1990s, this finding was born out again and again. 50 Ways To Say “You’re AWESOME.”