Do you have any thoughts on this?  Marsha

Amazing that a frog has better judgement than many people!  Who wants to hang around you?

Click here! Good reminders on how to stay sane in an insane world.

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Cool tools for success.  Not real sexy, but down to earth information.

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Are you willing to broaden your thinking when faced with opposing views? Most people don’t and push their head further in the sand. Jan Brewer, Arizona’s Governor didn’t. Challenge? Learn all you can and then form your own opinions.

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Do you think the founding fathers of the United States of America were waiting for someone to guide them? They were tired of the duty on tea that had not yet been repealed & the declaratory act of a right in the British parliament to bind this new country by English laws. They took risk.

You need to take risk. You must have some substance to base the risk on. Learn everything you can. Go to the library: read, study and apply. Turn off the boob tube. Take the leading role in your life. Be the founding father (or mother) or your own independence. And don’t listen to the toxic people in your life that want anything but you to be independent.

Happy Fourth of July! Marsha Marsha Petrie Sue, MBA, CSP

Photographer, Fisherman, Outdoors Woman and Wife to “The Boy Named Sue” Also a Professional Speaker and Author of a bunch of books and other stuff

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Now that’s not nice or really useful because you have just given in to someone else’s behavior.  A poor outcome is just about guaranteed. It is all about taking personal responsibility for your outcomes.

So here are  some stress management tips for toxic people or those difficult situations life serves up:

1. Breathe – when you are stressed, you stop breathing.  The brain receives no oxygen so you can’t think and will immediately flee to the fight or flight — choke the living out of them, or flee.

2. Pause – Stop. Think. Learn. Plan. Do.

3. Shift to the part of your brain where the words live so you can stop the negative spiral of thinking – your left brain. Say to yourself, “This is a test, this is only a test, this will not be important in 10 years.”

Have you ever noticed how you can think of exactly what to say about 2 hours after the stressful event?  In the moment, you’re thinking from mental terrorism (right side of your brain) and are highly emotional.

Remember, stress is a gift we give ourselves.  No one can make you feel bad except yourself.

Any other ideas on how to manage your stress?  Please share!

Why is this so much like life? I believe if we did our homework whether shopping for a home, a loan or a phone, we would get much better results. But most people want it now without much consideration. Their amazing fast track will get them where? And is it what they really want?

So here is my advice. Stop. Think. Learn. Plan. Do.  The three words in the middle are the most important.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Sage advice but my favorite is If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson

Cheers, Marsha

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By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Read more and please share this wonderful history with your children, friends and family. Freedom is never free and I honor everyone who protects my country.

God bless America. Marsha

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A major business publication estimates that more than 11 million meetings are held every business day. We all attend meetings that are boring and a waste of time.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

—Thomas Sowell, American economist

Reviewing the painful aspects of poorly planned meetings solves nothing. Understanding what makes successful meetings is time well spent.

8. Ask for Q&A before the meeting closes, with action items. You want people to walk away with what they need to do instead of the answer to the last question.

a. Give participants notepads to record their questions.

b. Create a “parking lot” to be used for items that arise that are not on the agenda. These items will be put on another meeting agenda.

9. Set time limits.

a. Limit comments to two sentences.

b. Appoint a timer so no comment runs over a predetermined amount of time. Suggestion: Hold each comment to less than two minutes.

c. Stick to the ground rule to begin and end on time!

10. Consider disrupting the meeting configuration and arrangement.

a. Have a stand-up meeting (they take less time).

b. Change the venue (park, restaurant, different conference room).

c. Vary the facilitator (draw numbers so everyone has to lead a meeting).

d. Do the same with meeting minutes, planning, follow-up and so on.

e. Critical! Ask yourself if the meeting could be an e-mail instead.

11. Meeting minutes.

a. Record the meeting and send a downloadable file.

b. Have a different person document each section of the meeting.

c. Record the meeting on video (if you try this, people will be constrained at first).

12. What to do if you are not in charge of the meeting (this is what

stars do):

(1) Review the agenda. If there is nothing that is pertinent to your job and projects, question your attendance as the best use of your time.

(2) Be prepared to ask questions. Link them back to objectives, mission, vision or other important company directives. Or better yet, include your knowledge from another project that can be applied to this one.

(3) Volunteer when appropriate and don’t just sit there like a lump. Show your initiative. Don’t wait to get recognized.