Self-Care: Becoming Your Own Best Friend
Practicing self-care means you become your own best friend, trusted confidante, personal trainer, and spiritual advisor. Can you be as compassionate with yourself as you are to your best friend? To practice…
Act Kindly
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Can You Apply Business Thinking in the Scoial Sector?
Jim Collins, author of “Good to Great” writes a monograph to accompany his acclaimed book and answers the question – why business thinking is not the answer – in a…
Cultivating Kindness
Treating people well is not just good for your karma, it’s good for your health and vitality, too. Psychology researcher, Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, author of Love 2.0: Creating Happiness and…
Back to School: Us and Them
My son, daughter-in-law and my three grandchildren, ages 10, 8 and 6, came to Chicago for a week of summer fun in the city before starting school in a few…
The Common Good
Last week, I attended a fireside chat between two religious leaders on a mission to start a conversation about the power of focusing on the common good. Whether Democrat or…
Celebrate Life, Love and Foregiveness
With the Easter season upon us, it’s a great time to celebrate life, love and forgiveness. When we decide to let go of old hurts or fresh insults, we foster…
Happiness Boosters: Random Acts of Kindnes
The notion that doing random acts of kindness can make a person feel good is not exactly a new concept. Writers, philosophers and religious thought leaders have appreciated this truth…
Do You Hear the Call to Serve?
Since the call to give and serve others can come to us at any time, are you ready to listen? A stranger walked into our lives a few weeks ago when she…
Two Friends with One Cause
You know the feeling when a high school friend “finds” you on Facebook. It happened to me last summer. My high school girlfriend and I had drifted apart and lost touch…
Just Say Thank You
When our family sits around the table on Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks for family, health and other expressions of gratitude. But, by saying “thank you” to someone everyday can create a…