I have come to believe that priorities are mighty important, not only in choosing where to begin on a to do list, but in choosing what to do with your life. The Time Management Matrix is one well-known method that…
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Wheel of Awareness
The ability to notice is vital to know when it is time to shift. When we notice our senses, bodily sensations, thoughts and feelings, and interactions with the outer world, we increase our awareness. Dr. Daniel Siegel created a tool…
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A Self Care Wheel for Wellness
Resilience is the ability to bounce back and adapt to changes. We can develop resilience with activities to care for our Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul. These activities are often coping skills that contribute to wellness. To be RESILIENT: Realistic…
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Four Fantastic Tools For Focus
What we see depends on what we look at. What we look at depends on what we see. – the Daily PlanIt Just as we can hear a sound without really listening, so too can we see something without really noticing.…
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12 Gifts of Christmas
The following ideas (with some of my favorites) to celebrate the 12 gifts of Christmas can make the holiday meaningful: 1. family – share the holiday with laughter and games, watch “Little Women” or “The Family Stone”2. friends – send…
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BAH – Barely Able to Handle the Holidays
BAH – Are you Barely Able to Handle the Holidays? Perhaps your family has made a choice to limit gift-giving and focus more on the true meaning of Christmas, or maybe you have experienced a loss. If so, a new approach…
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Grief Forward
A year ago, I was a happy person. I had a wonderful life, and was putting the final touches on a book about practices that contribute to happiness. But then in January of 2022, my world collapsed around me. The…
2022 Calendar to Make Positive Shift Happen
Get ready to make positive shift happen in 2022! View the flipping pdf online, or a 2022 CD Calendar pdf version to download and print for information and inspiration on 12 index size cards that can be displayed in a…
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Positive Shift Happens: the excerpt
Many of the practices shown by research to increase happiness are simple, and most of them are not hard to do. But life is so busy and full of distractions that we often fail to fit the building blocks into…
The Power of a Pause for Positive Shift
Positive shift happens when we practice the building blocks of positive psychology. The first letters of the practices that have been shown by research to increase happiness and well-being, happen to spell BE MEASURING. (although it is not usually important…
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