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Life Lessons from the Playground – Drink Lots of Water
Another Life Lesson coming your way: Drink lots of water I learned this from a continuing ed class – kids get to playing, enjoying themselves, forget to drink, and it causes chemical imbalances in the body, all the way to the brain level. They act out not (only) because they’re little terrors, but something is…
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Personalities in the Workplace – Managing With Mind and Heart Podcast – Nash Consulting
I recently was a guest on a podcast series with Ethan Nash of Nash Consulting, a business and management consulting group in consulting who do awesome work in equipping leaders, engaging employees, and improving organizations (you can see why I connect with them, right?). We had a blast talking about Personalities in the Workplace –…
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Life Lessons from the Playground – When You Hurt Someone, Say You’re Sorry
This week’s life lesson is: When you hurt someone, say you’re sorry and give them a hug This lesson usually came after the sharing or biting incidents. We would sit both parties down, admonish who ever needed to be admonished, and then encourage this interaction. I was constantly surprised at how willing the kids were…
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Life Lessons from the Playground – After Lunch, Change Your Pants and Take a Nap
I have to say that this is one of my favorite life lessons: After lunch, change your pants and take a nap The ritual after lunch was changing diapers and getting everyone went down for a nap. My fellow teachers and I had perfected a routine from Ben, who fell asleep in his food, to…
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Life Lessons from the Playground – Look Forward When You’re Walking Forward
Continuing on with Life Lessons from the Playground, this week, we are talking about: Look forward if you’re walking forward I always laughed at this one. We’d be walking down the hall and Isaac would inevitably have his head turned behind him with his body moving forward and bump into the other kids. Enter the…
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Life Lessons from the Playground – Say Please and Thank you
In continuing on with the things I learned that I summarized in Life Lessons from the Playground, let’s talk gratitude! Say Please and Thank You This is where we teach gratitude to our kids, and the awareness that not everything comes to us “just because”. I loved this because when my precious Ethan (terror 80%…
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Living Your Calling on the Kim Jacobs Show!
This past week I was a guest on the Kim Jacobs Show, and we had a lot of fun talking about my journey and my passion for helping people live their potential and calling. Check it out below!
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Small Band of Revolutionaries and Shawarma
I’m one of those people who sees a life lesson in a lot of different things, and movies are definitely one of them. A favorite of late has been the Avengers. It’s great, I love the plot, the script, just everything about it, but the last few months, I’ve been pondering about cadres. What’s that,…