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Do You Need a Toleration Elimination Day?

tolerations

What are you tolerating?

A toleration refers to something that’s bugging you but doesn’t have dramatic consequences if you don’t handle it.

Recently my computer mouse stopped scrolling up. It would work for one scroll but then I’d have to use the arrow keys or the bar on the side to scroll up any further. I tried cleaning the dust out of the mouse but it didn’t help so I just dealt with it for a couple of weeks.

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Categories: Procrastination, Reducing Stress, Time Management

Another way to look at “mistakes.”

mistakes

Sitting by myself in the empty house waiting for the moving trucks to arrive with all of our stuff, I had a realization. “I don’t want to live here.” At the time I thought it was just stress. Leaving a home I adored, the hassle of moving in general, etc.

But the feeling stayed — not always on the surface but it was there. Three years later we moved again — into a house that was more “us.”

People ask if I thought moving there in the first place was a mistake.

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Categories: Life skills, Reducing Stress, Resilience

I Dumped Facebook and It Feels Fantastic

facebook exit door

It’s despicable and horrendous that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to exploit user information for such nefarious purposes. If you don’t know what I’m referring to you can read about it here. The only upside to the whole disaster is that finally, after many years of waffling, the decision to delete my account was easy.

The freedom is close to intoxicating.

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Categories: Focus, Reducing Stress, Time Management

Is civility in the workplace in trouble?

civility in the workplace

I brought up politics over cocktails and here’s what happened.

It was an experiment.

Pretty certain that the guy I was meeting with was on the other side of the political spectrum, I asked him what he thought about the election. Over the next half hour we had a spirited discussion about the players, major political issues and the state of the country. It got tens

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Categories: Communication Skills, Reducing Stress

What You Need to Get Unstuck Depends on How Stuck You Are

stuck

Have you ever been stuck? Just not sure where to go from here? Maybe you have so much to do that you’re stuck in a paralyzed way. Or perhaps you’re stuck choosing between two options. Or even stuck because you don’t have enough information or skill in a particular area.

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Categories: Motivation, Procrastination, Productivity, Reducing Stress

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