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5 Tips for Kids to Stop Germ Spread
Are you worried about how your virtual, at-home schooling experience will go during the 2020 and 2021 calendar year? Many parents share your concerns and fears. One lesson that’s never too early to begin teaching at home is how to prevent the spread of germs. Keeping your germs to yourself is extremely valuable, whether in a pandemic or not. Your older kids already probably have a good handle on covering their mouths when sneezing or coughing. However, if your children are in preschool or still in the early grades, then they may not have yet established self-control. This is an important time to instill good habits. Also keep in mind that…
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How to Reflect on Your Life With Your Journal
If you are using your journal to gain more clarity and want to use it for reflection, the following questions will help you do just that. Dig Deep – Where have you been holding back? To start with, think about where in your life you might be holding back. What don’t you write about? What crosses your mind, that your instantly try to get out of your head? In what way are you keeping things to yourself, hiding your feelings, or not being completely transparent either with other people in your life or with what you choose to write about in your journal. What brings you the most joy? Reflect…
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Tips for Reducing Stress with Your Journal
Stress is the great equalizer – but not in a good way. You don’t want to know that everyone deals with stress in the same way. Stress is bad for your physical and mental health, disrupts your sleep, can lead to emotional eating, and so many more issues. If you have been dealing with a lot of stress, journaling can be an amazing tool. Do a Big Brain Dump If you are using your journal to reduce stress, try starting out with a brain dump. This is when you release all of those worries, thoughts, and feelings onto the paper. It can be easy to hold a lot of information…
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Check-in on Yourself with Your Journal
So many people are focused on their responsibilities, loved ones, and people who count on them both at home and at work, that they often neglect themselves. Not to mention all of the drama going on in the world today. If you find that this is happening to you, simply writing in a journal can help tremendously. Use your journal not to talk about anyone else, but to reflect on yourself and your own life. To check-in on YOU and see how you’re doing. How have you been feeling? Is there anything on your mind? How have you been feeling lately? Write how you have been lately, both internally and…
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10 Reasons to Embrace Your No
Michelle had just turned thirty when she became engaged. At the same time, she was planning her wedding, she also took on two key projects at work and began volunteering at a new organization that started in her area as well as helping her sister pack for a cross-country move. Rather than say “no” to any of these commitments, Michelle kept saying, “yes”. As her wedding date came closer, she felt overwhelmed, stressed, and scared. She could barely manage her life now. She couldn’t imagine adding another person to it. A friend gently pointed out to Michelle that she had “overspent her yeses”. She explained, “Your ‘yes’ is how you…
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Control the Clutter, Control Your Destiny
Running ragged and always feeling like you’re behind in your work leads to clutter and chaos in the office. Think about your workday objectively. Are you thinking about filing the banking statements or are you thinking about the rest of your to-do list? I’m guessing those banking statements get thrown into a pile while you think, “I’ll handle the filing tomorrow or over the weekend.” Here’s another guess: You’ll get distracted tomorrow or over the weekend so the filing sits in a pile, which keeps growing every month. Don’t fret. This is a common problem that permeates both business and personal lives. While you’re thinking about business, your household clutter…
