I find that when I’m procrastinating, I often have a question. For example, this week I delayed submitting an expense report because I wasn’t sure what expenses were covered. The problem is that I didn’t realize that. I just procrastinated submitting an expense report and figured it was because they were no fun to do. […]
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A month ago I set a goal for myself: no sweets nor alcohol for 30 days. In this post I’m primarily going to discuss the sweets part. I’ll address the alcohol part in another post. How did I do? I did excellent sticking to my goal. (That doesn’t mean I felt excellent just that I
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I’m not much of a procrastinator. And I owe that to Carmen. (Montse, be sure your mom hears this!) When I was 12, every day after school we went to Carmen’s house. We all sat around the table and, after eating a snack, we sat there and worked on homework until we were done. Carmen
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Having just spent three days in the hospital with my own 5 month old son, this article hit a nerve, Russian Shock at Gagged Babies. The babies were gagged with plaster and tape because their crying was disturbing the nurses. A woman who happened to be in the hospital with her own children heard the
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Frank says I’m too hard on our six year old sometimes. I don’t think my expectations are too high or too hard but I do think I could use a more positive approach sometimes. "Don’t do that!" and "that’s not very good manners" are certainly not teaching how to behave but rather how not to
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