Spring cleaning originally started in regions where the winter months brought dirt and dust from warming fireplaces and closed doors. Once the fires were not needed, the house could be opened and cleaned out for the spring and summer months. Spring cleaning is still a...
What is your workplace, school, home, or friends and family interactions like? With today’s news stories it can be hard to look past them while maintaining positivity. However, we need positivity now more than ever. Gaining and maintaining positivity is a lifelong quality that can...
Staying productive throughout the entire day can be a challenge for many of us. There are a lot of factors that can keep us from staying on task. Depending on your work or school environment, it can be hard to stay focused. Not to mention...
Depending on your position, the season of the year, or perhaps your stage in school, downtime can come up. For some, downtime is more regular and for others it is a rare occurrence. Usually there is not a lot of direction given by employers or...
Stress can creep on us gradually or appear suddenly depending on the cause of our stress. Many of us have developed coping skills to handle certain amounts of stress. Sometimes certain ways we de-stress are temporary and don’t allow us to fully heal from the...
Most of us have had to present information at some point, to a group of other people. Maybe it was for a school presentation, a work meeting or for a committee. Regardless, public speaking isn’t something that comes naturally to everyone. In fact, many high...
What comes to your mind when you think about having a positive work or school culture? Is empathy something that you thought of? Empathy means understanding someone else’s feelings and then sharing those feelings with them. Having empathy shows that you care about the people...
Whether it came from your parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles, caretaker or maybe a teacher at school, most of us can say we have been told it is important to eat your fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, due to taste, or smell or the look of them, vegetables...