by Nancy | Jul 23, 2024 | Appreciation, Commitment, Communication Skills, Encouragement, Habit Change, Listening, Respectful Behaviors, Uncategorized
We all want others to treat us with respect. Ask yourself, “Am I as committed to treating others with respect as I am to being treated with respect?” Identifying some characteristics of respect may help. Here are some characteristics of respect…...
by Nancy | May 7, 2024 | Commitment, Encouragement, Uncategorized
Everything Begins With an Intention The definition of intention is: a thing intended; an aim or plan. Every outcome begins with an intention. You intend to complete a task today. You either complete it or it is completed on another day, but it begins with the...
by Nancy | Apr 23, 2024 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Conflict, Problem Solving, Respectful Behaviors
My Father’s Priority I’d just gotten my driver’s license. I was excited when my mother asked me to run to town to pick up a prescription for her. I was driving her brand new ’58 Chevy Impala…one of the first new cars my parents ever...
by Nancy | Feb 13, 2024 | Commitment, Conflict, Encouragement, Problem Solving
What is Emotional Labor? Emotional Labor is a new buzz word that means energy spent for the good of another. Is Emotional Labor the same as Codependency? Traditionally, women are more “trained” to expend energy on behalf of others. That’s why there...
by Nancy | Jan 9, 2024 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Encouragement, Habit Change, Problem Solving, Uncategorized
Conscious parenting is parenting with the end result you have in mind for your child. I believe every parent wants a well-adjusted, responsible, compassionate child who, as an adult, has reasonable good sense and empathy. Start With That Goal in Mind From the...
by Nancy | Dec 19, 2023 | Commitment, Uncategorized
Approaching the first Christmas after Jim died in 2005, I wrote an essay imagining what it must have been like for the wise men. They packed up to follow an unknown star to an undisclosed destination hoping to find…the Son of God? Really? I wonder what their...
