Calmness isn’t something I was born with— however, I have been working on becoming calmer….for a long long time. Ha.  I have found that the most grounded people don’t waste energy on things that drain them. They stay focused, control what they can, and let the rest go. I’m working on this myself every day. Want […]
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 The saying, “age is just a number” is starting to seem more and more true as I get older.  Mary Henk, who works on my team, and I are in our early 60s. We have both noticed an interesting trend: some people our age look and feel decades younger, while others appear much older. Is it
Every year people make New Year’s resolutions and every year people do not stick to them. But my question is: why do we have to be going into a new year to adopt healthy habits?  Let’s start now. How? We have some new science: Simplicity and Repetition is EVERYTHING – To create a simple habit, new research
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What is a “Time Billionaire?” Simply put, it’s a concept that challenges us to recognize the wealth of time we hold, especially when we’re young. AND, more importantly, to begin considering time as our most valuable asset.  A billion seconds is just over 31 years. How we use those billion seconds makes our life. —
This week, let’s focus on how often we should call our parents. If you are one of my own kids reading this; Call and come over all the time 😊.  For everyone else, remember that this should be an authentic process. First, if you think of your parents and it’s not in the middle of the night, call
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For today’s LIFEies, I went to two of my team members at The Coppola-Cheney Group: Nick Whitehouse and Kaeli Cabral. They are great young people who add a ton of value to our team. I thought they could write today’s topic from their own perspective. We asked them why have mentors and how the best
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I am constantly looking for ways to live my life as efficiently as possible. Every day, I live with the word Kaizen in mind. What is Kaizen you may ask? It is the philosophy that constant improvement with small positive changes can result in great success. I have included two articles about this topic today
Research shows that, on average, we shift our gaze from our screens every 47 seconds and check email 77 times a day. Can we find ways to slow down? I think we can. The below article offers several ways to get your attention span back.  After my review, I asked myself, how can I be
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I’m not exactly sure when I realized that time was my most precious commodity, but it was early in my career. Since then, I have had four decades to track, refine, and use my time effectively. If you want to know why this is so important, see the article below. There are some fantastic graphs on how most
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Below is a fascinating article about how we spend our time throughout our lives. Now that I am 60+ years old, I have experienced quite a few of the segments myself. I wanted to share what’s coming to our younger readers and maybe give older readers some things to consider.  Here is what I am thinking
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