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05/10/2026

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Staying positive in a negative world involves intentionally managing your focus, limiting exposure to toxic content, and cultivating gratitude. Practical steps include curating your social circle, practicing gratitude, exercising, using humor, and rephrasing challenges as opportunities. Key techniques also involve controlling your own mindset, engaging in self-care, and consciously choosing to "be the light" by spreading kindness. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]Key Strategies for Positivity• Curate Your Information Intake: Turn off unnecessary news and block social media feeds that breed negativity. Set strict time limits for consumption.• Practice Gratitude Daily: Actively identify good things in life, such as by keeping a gratitude list to counteract surrounding negative influences.• Surround Yourself with Positivity: Spend time with encouraging friends, family, and colleagues who offer support and uplift you, avoiding those who thrive on drama.• Reframe Challenges: View challenges as opportunities for growth rather than insurmountable obstacles.• Set Boundaries: It is okay to walk away from negative conversations, TV shows, or social settings that drain your energy.• Manage Your Mindset: Recognize that you have control over your own thoughts and reactions. Use affirmations, meditate, and consciously choose to focus on the good.• Take Action (Service): Volunteer or help others, which can improve your own perspective and spread joy, notes.• Self-Care: Exercise for 30 minutes to reduce stress, follow a healthy diet, and ensure enough sleep. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]Techniques for Releasing Negativity• Use Humor: Actively seek out reasons to laugh to reduce stress.• Positive Self-Talk: Do not say anything to yourself that you would not say to someone else.• Focus on What You Can Control: Focus on creating a positive environment at home, at work, and with your immediate social circle, rather than trying to fix the entire world's problems. [1, 2]By intentionally choosing to be a "light" in the world, you can make a profound impact on everyone around you and mitigate the effects of negativity in your own life. [1]• Sensitive and Stronghttps://sensitiveandstrong.comPositive Living in a Negative World: 5 Things You Can DoBeing a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) means being emotionally perceptive and empathetic. This can make it difficult to remain calm...• YouTube·Andrew Wommackhttps://www.youtube.comHow to Stay Positive in a Negative World: Week 2, Day 1Both death and life reside in the power of the tongue, and those who love this power will eat its fruit. Every word spoken and hea...5m• Miracles Are Brewinghttps://www.miraclesarebrewing.comHow To Stay Positive In A Negative World - Carly BensonBe the light. I challenge you in a world full of negativity, to be the one spreading the light. Go out of your way to be the perso...

05/05/2026

Arizona

Nowhere on this planet is the desert as fascinating as it is in Arizona," a testament to the state's unique, vibrant beauty. It's a place where desert therapy, breathtaking red rocks, and stunning sunsets create an unforgettable, soul-shining adventure, making it a must-visit destination.

04/07/2026

FOR A NEW BEGINNING
John O'Donohue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

03/11/2026

Next Steps to Leadership Career Pivots Mark Erath Part 2

Welcome back to part 2 of Personal and Professional Pivots - Professor Mark Erath with Dr. Stephen Oliver of the University of Virginia , SCPS .

We are continuing our conversation of taking career and personal pivots. We will be reviewing 10 systematic tactics for pivoting and change. We will also look at models of change management to assist you with pivoting in your career and personal lives. Please consider these tools and techniques as you pivot in your career and life!

Thank you Professor Erath for your insights!

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02/01/2026

"All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change,"

from Parable of the Sower. - Octavia Butler

01/19/2026

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Today is the federal holiday that honors civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929, and was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis at just 39 years old. We play an excerpt from King’s last speech, “I Have Been to the Mountaintop,” in which ...

01/13/2026

Practicing Resistance

Let’s start with the complexity.Sometimes resistance involves bravely picking up a picket sign; other times it asks us to courageously put down our masks and allow who we really are to see the light of day. Sometimes it involves defeating the enemy; other times it’s a matter of noticing that treating “them” as the enemy defeats us all. Often the path of resistance asks us to stay in it for the long haul, but just as often it’s about taking that first tiny step. Most of the time it requires us to fight to the bitter end, and yet there are many moments when we need to stop resisting and let go.

Resistance certainly takes the form of speaking the truth to power, but often what the world needs even more is for us to speak the truth in love. Bottom line: practicing resistance is tricky business and takes multiple, even contradictory, forms.But beyond this complexity lies the simplicity of Marge Piercy’s words. In all cases, she reminds us, practicing resistance starts when we say “We!”

For instance, the power of our picket sign resides in the fact that it hangs alongside those of others. Being who we are usually begins with another person loving us for who we are. Both the long haul and our first courageous step are made possible by reaching out to receive a helping hand. It’s all one big reminder that none of us resist alone

Soul Matters January 2026

11/16/2025

THE “EMPTY TABLE PRINCIPLE”: How Steve Jobs Used Silence to Outsell Every Competitor
In 1997, Apple was weeks away from bankruptcy.
The stock was crashing.
Employees were quitting.
The brand was considered dead.
So the board brought back Steve Jobs… and his first act shocked everyone.
He walked into the product strategy meeting, looked at a giant table filled with dozens of computers, printers, gadgets, accessories, and prototypes…
and said nothing.
He just stood there.
People waited.
Coughed.
Shifted in their seats.
Finally, Jobs calmly said:
“We’re going to make four products.
And we’re going to make them insanely great.
Everything else… delete it.”
Engineers panicked.
Marketers protested.
Entire departments begged him to keep their devices alive.
Jobs refused.
One by one, he cleared the table.
Every product… gone.
Every complication… gone.
Every distraction …gone.
When he finished, the once-packed table was completely empty.
He pointed at it and said:
“This… is how we win.”
From that empty table came the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad …the most profitable product line in consumer history.
Apple didn’t grow by adding.
It grew by subtracting.
💡 THE MARKETING LESSON
Complexity kills sales.
Clarity creates dominance.
Jobs understood something most businesses still ignore:
Customers don’t choose the best product…
they choose the clearest choice.
That’s why:
• In-N-Out sells more with 3 burgers than menus with 98 items
• Trader Joe’s thrives with fewer SKUs than any major grocery chain
• Netflix exploded when they removed everything except one promise: “Watch anything instantly.”
When you remove noise, value becomes visible.
When you reduce options, demand increases.
When you simplify choices, people act faster.
🧠 THE NERDY TAKEAWAY
The “Empty Table Principle” teaches this:
You don’t need more products.
You need more purpose.
Growth isn’t about offering everything.
It’s about focusing on the thing you can make unforgettable.
Because when your brand becomes clear…
your audience becomes certain.
And certainty sells more than features ever will.
(Paul Getter)

11/16/2025

Songs for the People

BY FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
Let me make the songs for the people,
Songs for the old and young;
Songs to stir like a battle-cry
Wherever they are sung.

Not for the clashing of sabres,
For carnage nor for strife;
But songs to thrill the hearts of men
With more abundant life.

Let me make the songs for the weary,
Amid life’s fever and fret,
Till hearts shall relax their tension,
And careworn brows forget.

Let me sing for little children,
Before their footsteps stray,
Sweet anthems of love and duty,
To float o’er life’s highway.

I would sing for the poor and aged,
When shadows dim their sight;
Of the bright and restful mansions,
Where there shall be no night.

Our world, so worn and weary,
Needs music, pure and strong,
To hush the jangle and discords
Of sorrow, pain, and wrong.

Music to soothe all its sorrow,
Till war and crime shall cease;
And the hearts of men grown tender
Girdle the world with peace.

10/16/2025

Time Management Quotes "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities" by Stephen Covey and
"Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand" by Napoleon Hill

10/11/2025

Effective Communications Skills

Taking the Next Steps in Leadership with Rebecca Haley of Peter Becker Community & Executive Coach

A wonderful discussion with Rebecca Haley - Vice President of Human Resources at Peter Becker Community and Executive Coach. Rebecca discusses strategies for Effective Communication Skills for leaders. She emphasizes the need for leaders to better listen to staff and customers and hone in their skills on giving effect feedback. Creating an environment where feedback can be given all the tie in a positive and productive manner! A great conversation!

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