Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the Big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out…it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. ~Robert Service
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Social Distancing. 21 Things To Do…
With the influx of the pandemic worldwide many regular activities have come to a halt. Kids are home from school. Businesses have closed or implemented work-from-home with only a skeletal staff in office. Things are just basically at a standstill. What can you do when the work stops? When maintaining Social Distance confines you to your home? Beauty Bites and Radical Transformation Projects gave a few tips. Here I share my personal favs of 21 things that you can try:
- Sleep. Go ahead. You’ve always wanted to do it. Now you’ve got the time. Do it
- Listen to an audio-book
- Create a vision board of your dream life and hang it where you can see it
- Read a book
- Start a blog
- Watch motivational speeches online
- Make a self-care kit for when you feel down
- Write poetry
- Plan your week, month, year!
- Learn a new recipe
- Write a list of things you are thankful for
- Dance! Dance in your home
- Go for a walk.
- Enjoy nature
- Make a list of things you’re grateful for
- Learn a new language
- Make a list of the places you would like to visit
- Declutter your phone
- Plan to do something different every month for the rest of the year
- Update your resume…just in case
- Connect spiritually
Try something new!
Cheers!
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Social Distance. 5 Ways To Greet Safely…
Here’s a hug for you, and for you, and one for you.
But Hold up! With the advent of the Corona virus we are not supposed to be hugging right? It’s called keeping your social distance. We are now forced to find new ways to greet others at social gatherings such as in the networking sphere.
5 Ways To Greet Safely
Here are 5 Ways:
- Look the person in the eye and use your feet to greet (shown in video). It’s called the Wuhan Shake.
- Wave to say hello
- Fist Bump
- Head nod
- Just say hello
There are tons more circulating but for now as we battle the Corona health pandemic, these should help bridge the gap.
Cheers!
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Will Anyone Want To Read What You Write?
Raise your words not your voice. It’s rain that grows flowers not thunder ~Rumi
With exclamation signs and all the teacher sent an email titled “Important! Please read!” Parents rolled their eyes. Who wants to read a lengthy email captioned like that? The essence of what she wrote was students folders were sent home with report cards. Why not just say that? What parent isn’t interested in his/her child’s performance?
Corporate Communication
It’s the same with communication sent to employees by supervisors and managers. That’s essentially what Aaron Orendorff discussed in his insightful New York Times article Your Colleagues don’t read anything you write.
Simply say what you mean. No need to shout. It’s what Rumi’s quote alluded to Raise your words not your voice. It’s rain that grows flowers not thunder.
3 Communication Gems
Personally, I walked away with three gems:
- Put action words in your subject line
- Listen more. Talk less
- Don’t answer. Ask
Often it’s not what we say but how. So check your manner, tone, words and how you speak. Chances are your tone precedes your voice. Something to think about.
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Ditch It. Switch It. A Story…
Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there’s only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. The tale of someone’s life begins before they are born.
Listen to my interview with former Regional Director turned Radio personnel, singer, songwriter, Poet and Musician shares how he Ditched It to do what he loves in order to follow his passion. Learn the strategies he used.
Most important his audience was exposed to the inner secrets of the man behind the mic.
Stay tuned for new book soon to be released “Your Career: Ditch It. Switch It”
Cheers!
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Time Wasters. Manipulators Among The 5 Kinds Of Toxic People
They give headaches. Increase stress…and Simply make your life miserable. Living with one? Whew! Working with one? May God help you! (yep). But whatever your situation…Do something about it!
In my Success Strategies workbook, I outlined 8. Here are 10 kinds Jeffrey Moore posited. I’ll share my top 5 from his list. Check his 10 kinds of Toxic People for more including descriptions.
Toxic People
1.Time Wasters
2.The Victim
3.The Always Negatives
4.Manipulators
5.The Always Stressed Out
But how do you deal with them? Stay tuned to learn more in my soon to be released book Ditch It. Switch It.
From those listed here, what are your top 5? Do share. We would love to hear!
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Life. Take. Another. Shot.
Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. Develop from the negatives and if things don’t turn out – just take another shot.
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Do Something That Don’t Interest You…
That’s how you grow. Be curious. Do something that don’t interest you. Sounds contrary to today’s thinking right? But it’s a valuable lesson. Many are the career paths and relationships that we never thought would interest us.
HBR Writer Joseph Grenny shared in his stance on being creative on the go. Included in it was his stance on doing something that does not interest you. Personally, I never thought of photography but based on my writing interest developed years ago, I realized that I needed photographs to go with my social media posts. Rather than buying, I chose to take them. This has developed an unexpected interest in photography through taking just about anything. My preferred pics include nature, the sand, sea, waves, and just about anything other selfie-takers may miss around them.
So today I encourage you to do something different. Who knows you may find a new delectable pleasure you can’t resist.
Cheers!
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Got Flicks?
Water’s Beauty
Anyone else got flicks, drop ’em
Words from a young college grad. I used to hate taking pictures. Photographers would ask you to turn here. Turn there. I found it rather annoying. Then at the passing of a close relative years ago, my niece begged and pleaded with me to take a pic with my siblings. Eventually, I yielded. Unknown to me (to us), that was the last time we would all be together. Within less than a year I lost my mom, brother and later, my younger sister.
So Now
So now I’m an avid neophyte photographer. Thanks to the iPhone, I’m able to take pics in my own novice way. I take pictures at professional association membership meetings, at social gatherings, the sea, nature (where I feel mostly at home), you name it…I take it! Besides, I am an avid blogger and author. I do not wish to pay for every picture I use on my Instagram posts. So I simply take them. Maybe I’ll take WordPress Photography course to build/grow my neophytic taste for pics!
What about you? Have you got a taste for anything that you need to build to achieve your goals? Do share. We would love to hear!
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Love’s Here To Stay…
Curling up with you for awhile today
Showering my love for you to stay
Though you’re far away, I feel you so near
And bask in memories so precious, so dear
Longing for you seems measures away
Words without end, there’s so much to say
Memories, soft kisses, light smiles along the way
For you I long
For you I cherish
For you my sigh, my bliss, my all
For all the militias so very far away
Love’s wounded, but it’s here to stay
Dedicated to Military families that distance separates.
Dr. Shelly C
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Maps: My Muse, My Story.
My Travel. My Muse. Maps and my Story.
What’s yours?
Where I’m From
Jamaica. Lazy Beaches. No Problem
Where I’ve Lived
Florida. The Sunshine State
Washington DC. The Nation’s Capital
Furthest I’ve Traveled
Where I Want to Go
Venice. Dreams of Cafes and Gondola
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Don’t Be Scared. Ask.
Don’t be afraid. Ask
Heart pounding. I reached for the phone ….10 times. Scared. How can I ask? They will say no or think I’m factitious. But the feeling of uneasiness, discomfort and pain would not go away. So pride aside, I picked up the phone.
They said yes.
Aren’t we all like that at times? Whether its a job, promotion, increase, entrepreneurial venture, or relationship, we encounter sleepless nights and stress because we are afraid to ask. Our wants, desires and needs go unfulfilled because we are afraid to ask.
But…
Asking alleviates confusion, conflict, clarifies, and resolves our challenges and issues. Most important it helps us grow and creates a feeling of importance and joy to the person who has the answer.
But what if they respond negatively? What if they don’t? Go ahead and ask….I dare you?
Cheers!
