mindset
School is starting
It’s Labor Day today here in the USA. A new school year begins in a matter of days (for most).
Here are some tips for getting your young children ready:
Be Positive. Remember to use positive language and tonality when talking about your youngster going to school.
Take a tour of the school if possible. Your child may [...]
Raising Decision Makers
Parenting isn’t easy. We don’t get a manual. It’s the ultimate in “on-the-job-training.”
Here’s a little something for you to think about. One of our primary objectives is to raise children who become fully functioning and competent adults. Decision making is important in this objective. Therefore, we must think about allowing our children to make decisions [...]
Parenting: Accountability
As I’ve said previously, parenting isn’t necessarily easy. We often don’t know what to do or say. Simply doing what our parents did isn’t the best course of action. However, it’s often the only option.
As a rule, we let our kids off the hook too easily and too often. We fail to hold them Accountable [...]
Bullying: Name Calling
Remember the old rhyme from childhood: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?” Bunk!
Names do hurt. That inspirational rhyme is flat out wrong. Loving parents and dutiful school folk told us this in an attempt to help us cope with and ignore name calling from fellow students. It didn’t [...]
Good Parenting: Take Aways Don’t Work
Parents do the best they can with the resources that they have.
This being said, too many parents know that they need to apply consequences, but have no clue how to do it. When parents and children come to see me I regularly hear, “we’ve taken everything away… it still isn’t getting better… we don’t know [...]
Health Care Reform Bill Passed
The Congress passed landmark health care reform legislation last night. Is this good or bad? Is this right or wrong? Is this the beginning of something else as many have feared? I don’t think any of us can truly answer these questions. I haven’t read the bill. Have you? So, before I comment on the [...]
New Year… New You… Take Action
So, have you made New Years Resolutions? I bet you have. Or. maybe you didn’t bother because you’ve made them in the past, and didn’t keep them.
Here’s a quick guide to making successful resolutions.
Set timely goals. Set a specific date for your goal achievement.
Craft an “Action Plan.” Goals are nice. but it’s action that gets [...]
Customer Appreciation Day 2009 with L&S Chocolates
I joined with “The Candy Ladies” of L&S Chocolates for Customer Appreciation Day 2009.
It’s a great idea to thank some of the people who support us so well throughout the year. We had food, beverages, prizes and lots of fun. I even gave away a brand new iPod Nano in a raffle. Now that’s a [...]
Motivation… You already have it in you
Are you motivated?
Do you do what you do accidentally?
Watch this mini clip on motivation. I have lots more coming. I’m going to teach you how to easily motivate yourself to achieve ANY outcome you desire. Just watch!
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Keep a Food Journal to help you Lose Weight
I’m asked all the time for specific tools to help you lose weight. Keeping track of what you eat is one of the best things you can do to assist your weight loss efforts. This is really simple to do. Everyone resists this initially. I did. But once you do it, you’ll really see the [...]