Category: Love Your Life
Finding Joy in the Everyday: Embracing Small Moments of Happiness
What small moments of happiness have you experienced today? In Tranquility by Tuesday, Laura Vanderkam reminds us that small moments of happiness can significantly enhance our overall happiness. “When we think about ‘joy’ and ‘happiness’” she writes, “we often think about whether the big pieces of a good life are in place: the prestigious job,…
Unlocking 7 Reasons to Embrace Remote Work for Your Team
Increase innovation, productivity, and wellness through remote work. I’ve heard all the myths about remote work. Managers will lose control of their teams and projects. Employees won’t be as productive. Teams will be disconnected and isolated. Communication will be too difficult. We’ll lose out on the sense of community we have in the office. But…
Why Higher Ed Leaders Fear Remote Work: Dispelling Myths to Retain Our Talented Teams
Since the pandemic, I’ve read so many articles about the work-from-home vs. bring-everyone-back-to-the-office debate. A lot of the arguments center around productivity, perceptions (and sometimes myths) about the effectiveness of in-person oversight of employees, and beliefs about the value of serendipitous connections that happen when we are all in the same building (or on the…
6 Essential Life Lessons I Learned from my Mom
In honour of Mother’s Day, here are just a few things I learned from my mom that I want to teach my daughter: 💡 Stay in touch with friends. It matters that you know people who knew you when you were in a different chapter of your life. 💡 Meaningful work matters. My mother is…
Let go of the overwhelm. Celebrate your Ta-Da! List
Take a moment to celebrate how amazing you already are. If you’re like the rest of us, you have a never-ending to-do list, and the minute you check one item off, another gets added. (Or, let’s be honest, just as often we get excited about a new project and add 10 more items to our…
5 Self-Care Practices that are Free (or Cost the Same as a Cup of Coffee)
You don’t have to be exhausted to deserve self-care. You deserve it now. Ever find yourself thinking that self-care is something you will do when you [enter your go-to excuse: find the time, the kids grow up, don’t have such a busy life, quit your job, have more money]? Here’s your reminder that some of…
Is Slow the New Productive?
What would you stop doing, if doing less really does lead to greater creativity and accomplishment of what truly matters in your work? Like you, I take great pride in the work I do. I value the connections I form with students as we consider challenging topics about leadership. I take great satisfaction when I’ve…