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Remember back when your were a kid? You’d lie on the ground watching the clouds move by. You’d let your imagination transform those fluffy accumulations of moisture into faces and landscapes and cartoon characters.

Or, you’d watch the ants hurrying about their tasks, following the trail blazed by others. Or, delight in blowing on dandelions to watch the fluffy parachutes float slowly to the ground.

When was the last time you did any of those things?

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One of my biggest frustrations is trying to buy just about anything today.Over the last twenty years or so the number of choices available has just absolutely exploded.  The internet has made shopping simultaneously infinitely easier and infinitely more complex.

Years ago, before the internet and the availability of on-line shopping, when you needed something you went to your local retailer and looked at the stock on hand. Generally, they stocked only a few models of any given product and you made your decision from that selection. If your needs were more specific, the retailer might drag out the catalog (more…)

Let me ask you a question.

What does it take to satisfy your needs and wants? I mean, How often have you made a purchase, taken a course of action or what not and been truly satisfied with the result?

When was the last time a purchase you made was “good enough”? (more…)

I often remind my fledgling nurses that there are two kinds of nurses: those that everyone wants to work with and those that nobody wants to work with. While I focus here on nurses, the same ideas could  be applied in virtually any work

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I was reading Leo Babauta’s article Finding the Natural Rhythms and Flows of Working and was reminded of one of the stresses of my own life. Although I work in education (presumably an information industry), the organization I work for has some very industrial ideas about work. You must be in your office from 8AM to 5PM daily, regardless of whether you have classes or not. (more…)