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United was How This All Started freedom happiness leadership mental wellbeing Sep 17, 2024

Two hundred thirty seven years ago, in a document with forty-five hundred words, thirty-nine men took their lives in their hands, put quill pen to parchment paper, and defined a new way to look at governance. Today is Constitution Day, a celebration of the definition of the United States. For eleven...

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Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season #leader #success attitude control happiness hurricane season tilting at windmills uncontrollable Jun 25, 2024

Are you a Jimmy Buffet fan? A full-on Parrothead? Or maybe you’re someone who never understood the appeal of a man who wore loud shirts, shorts, and performed barefoot in front of thousands of adoring fans?

It doesn’t matter where you land on the Beach Balladeer’s spectrum of fandom, you’ve probabl...

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Freedom for Working Moms #leader #success happiness mother's day work at home moms week May 14, 2024

This past Sunday was Mother’s Day. It’s a lovely holiday designed to let moms relax for one day of the year while being appreciated and pampered. It’s a day that features flowers, favorite foods, gifts, and maybe even a macaroni necklace designed by a 3-year-old. Can AI ever replace those? (Please d...

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Are You Celebrating Today? friendship galentine's day happiness success support Feb 13, 2024

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which can only mean one thing – today is Galentine’s Day! What? You’ve never heard of it? Read on…

Galentine’s Day became a thing in 2010, when an episode of the television series Parks and Recreation centered around the deputy director, Leslie Knope, throwing a Galenti...

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Do You Need Further Proof of the Power of Pets? agriculture happiness love pet industry pets succcess veterinarian Jan 09, 2024

Do you have a pet? Do you know how influential you are, you pet-owner, you?

As people spent more time with their pets during the pandemic lockdown, and as those without pets realized the value of non-human companionship, all categories of pet purchases – food, veterinary care, training, boarding, y...

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Do Your Words Really Matter? agriculture appreciation gratitude happiness petindustry thanksgiving vetlife wellbeing Nov 21, 2023

In the United States, Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. In the early 1600’s, when the first Thanksgiving celebration featuring Englishmen in the New World happened, “giving thanks” was how people expressed their gratitude for surviving a tough year, or for bringing in a bountiful harvest.

The tradition...

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How to Keep from Being a Casualty in This War agriculture animal industry happiness media coverage mental wellbeing social media veterinarian war Oct 24, 2023

Our lives are filled with war. War in the mainstream media, war in the social media, and war in the everyday conversations. We don’t have to live in the war zone to be profoundly mentally affected by war.

The social-mediazation of war began with the war in the Ukraine and shows no signs of stopping...

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The Art of Juggling Happiness #success happiness petindustry vetlife wellbeing Aug 08, 2023

Let’s talk about happiness today, and how difficult it is for scientists to even define it, much less quantify it for us. A focus on happiness has been in the news so much that now its shadow twin, toxic positivity, is making headlines. In this post, happiness is being discussed as one of the large ...

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Do Your To-Do's Include You? #animalindustry #leadership #selfcare #success #veterinary happiness petindustry Jul 25, 2023

Caution: cliché alert!!!

  • You can’t pour from an empty vessel.
  • Almost everything will work if you unplug it for a few minutes – even you.
  • We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Yes, you’re right – this edition of the newsletter is about self-care. July is Self-Care month and ...

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Welcome to the Last Day to Party - Sort Of carnival celebrate fat tuesday happiness mardi gras mental wellbeing pancake tuesday shrove tuesday success Feb 21, 2023

Today is the day when Louisiana blooms, not with bougainvillea's riotous blossoms, but with partying people, parades and portable adult beverages. Today is the last day before Lent begins, the final day of the Mardi Gras season, and it’s traditionally a day for gluttony of all sorts before the Chris...

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Why Yes, Today IS Valentine's Day - How Could You Tell? happiness love mental wellbeing neuroscience success valentine's day wellbeing Feb 14, 2023

If you’ve seen a billboard, heard a radio or TV commercial, been inside a store or even just poked your nose outside your front door in the last week, then you already know what today is. Did you know that, in addition to Valentine’s Day, it’s Galentine’s Day, Madly in Love with Me Day, Internationa...

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Yet Another Thing that Needs Lifting and Boosting...Sheesh! happiness mental wellbeing self-confidence success wellbeing Feb 07, 2023

Could your self-esteem use a boost, and just how the heck could that be accomplished? Let’s talk about that this week.

This month is International Boost Self-Esteem Month, intended to shine a light on just how tough most of us are on ourselves. If you grew up hearing phrases like, “don’t blow your ...

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The Time to Plan is Now happiness leadership mental wellbeing success vacation wellbeing Jan 31, 2023

It’s the last day of the first month of the new year. And it’s cold. OK, it’s winter and it’s supposed to be cold. Seriously, Mother Nature – 18 in Maine, 4 in North Dakota and minus 1 in Minnesota? The freezing temperatures are coast to coast, north to south, and make me want to hibernate. You, too...

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There are NO Broken People and Today We Celebrate! happiness leader ptsd success trauma wellbeing Jan 17, 2023

Have you ever had an idea, brought it to fruition, and during its infancy you discovered that your idea was bigger than you knew? International We Are Not Broken Day began in 2019, so is still fairly new, as is the organization of the same name. The founder, Texan Nochola Cotto, intended it to be a ...

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In Praise of Peculiar People happiness leader non-conformity peculiar success wellbeing Jan 10, 2023

Today, let’s celebrate peculiar people. It’s officially Peculiar People Day, though no one knows how this one got started or why. It seems to be a nod to a group of faith healers formed by Englishman John Banyard, “Peculiar People,” in 1838. Or maybe not – the two events simply share the words “pecu...

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How to Finally Ace Your New Year's Resolution...or Not! brain pattern failure happiness keeping a resolution leadership new year's resolution success Jan 03, 2023

Welcome to the first “official” workday of the new year. Around half of Americans make resolutions to start a new year, and of those, fewer than 10% will follow through and succeed at their newfound resolve. Of the other 90+ percent, most will quit this week. This.Week. Ouch!

Before you get all bum...

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Pardon The Interruption... dress for success email focus happiness interruption messages phone wellbeing Dec 27, 2022

The week between Christmas and the New Year celebrations is usually a quiet one. Many people are on vacation, and those who are working this week feel like it’s some of their most productive time. Why? Because there are far fewer interruptions, meaning they feel they can get more done than normal.

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