Running full steam every day exhausts our mind, body, and soul.  Learning to keep tasks and a to-do list at bay requires cultivating intentional good habits.  If not, all the little and unnecessary things will clutter our minds. Keeping our minds free and decluttered lends itself to creativity, unlike instinctual animals such as our pets. Our greatest gift to think logically can also be our greatest weakness if we do not use it for its intended purposes to serve and care for one another.  Many social and environmental issues dominate…

It has been about over a month since most of us are in quarantine and need to stay at home unless going out to buy groceries, medicine or run essential errands.  Our previous blog gave some tips on successfully working from home. This week, we are extending that further with successfully staying emotionally and mentally balanced while staying at home. Recap from the last blog post we gave Tip #1, designation space/room for activities Tip 2: Plan/organize a schedule Office work to be done (morning/afternoon/night)Kids school work to be done…

This weekend’s news update by President Trump to extend the Social Distancing Guidelines through the end of April may have some of us pulling out our hair or some of us smiling and letting out a sigh of relief. How was your response to this news? Your reaction may be a sign of how well you will be able to endure working from home successfully and how well your relationship will be with family and friends. We want to have all our hair on our heads by the time we…

Our mental strength has been tested quite a bit these last few years, and now with the COVID-19 pandemic, our mental strength, along with our physical strength, is stretched thin and put to the test.  Living in a world where we can calculate and predict every aspect of our daily lives, we are at a loss right now because we are no longer able to predict and calculate this virus with accuracy. What then will our minds do to compensate this discrepancy in relinquishing us from the data-driven mindset we…