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3 Easy Steps to Focus on Your Work-Life Priorities

3 Easy Steps to Focus on Your Work-Life Priorities3 Easy Steps to Focus on Your Work-Life Priorities3 Easy Steps to Focus on Your Work-Life Priorities With all the discussion about how to achieve work-life balance, we have overlooked a big problem with this idea: our lives are not supposed to be balanced with equal time…

My Happiness Project

I recently started reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, and it really got me thinking.  Am I as happy as I could be?  What does that even look like?  How would I even know?  She quotes a woman named Collette: “What a wonderful life I’ve had!  If only I’d realized it earlier.”  Will that be me?  Will I look back when I’m 80 and realize I had been happy all along?

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On The Lighter Side

This experience has been the most challenging I’ve ever had, but it has also been one of the most meaningful learning opportunities I’ve experienced. While there have been a lot of emotional and stressful times, there have also been moments on the lighter side.  I’ve learned that it is much easier to survive difficult times when you take time to find the positive moments.