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What’s Your Why?

What’s Your Why?

Ever think about it - What is your why? What’s at stake? Why are you doing what you’re doing? Why do you live the way you live?

Your why is your mission in life, your calling, and your reference point for all decisions you make and actions that you take. If you feel lost, uncertain, unfulfilled or anxious, it might just be because you haven’t found your why yet.

Free Nature Identification Apps

Free Nature Identification Apps

Have you ever wondered which species of bird has made the tree outside your window their home? What type of plant is taking over your backyard? Or what that weird looking worm is on your porch? With a nature identification app, you can discover which species of plants, flowers, trees, animals and insects are right outside your front door.

Luckily, there are several free apps available for download to help you identify, record, track, and learn about the world around you—which is the perfect pastime while we continue to social distance. Here are our top five:

Starting an Exercise Program When You’re Out of Shape

Starting an Exercise Program When You’re Out of Shape

Starting an exercise program can be pretty daunting, especially if it’s been a while since you’ve visited the inside of a gym. The good news is that an exercise program doesn’t have to make you miserable.

Easy does it

Often when we start, we’re full of enthusiasm and overdo it. Why do 20 sit-ups when you can probably manage 50? When we wake up the next morning, we know why. 

Reinventing Your Business in the COVID Era

Reinventing Your Business in the COVID Era

The world has permanently changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving many business owners wondering how they will survive. Those who adapt quickly and strategically to our new normal, and reinvent their business models, are more likely to be successful in this endeavor. The following steps will be essential:

Gearing Up for the Holidays: How Will Your Customers Shop?

It’s no secret that people have changed the way they shop over the years. A century ago Sears & Roebuck dominated the industry with their innovative mail order catalog system. In the middle of last century, the downtown department store reigned supreme. By the 1980’s, malls were all the rage. Now paper catalogs are quaint, the department store is a distant memory, and malls are decayed shadows of their former glory. If you are a small business today, you’re likely operating out of a store front in a strip mall or have given up on brick and mortar entirely. These days online is where the action is, and the Covid-19 pandemic has only accelerated a growing trend. 

2 Sources for Free Courses in Almost Anything

2 Sources for Free Courses in Almost Anything

In today’s global marketplace, businesses need to embrace a culture of continuous learning in order to remain competitive and find success. Business owners and employees alike can benefit from acquiring new skills for many reasons, including:

  • Personal enrichment
  • Increased job performance
  • Career development
  • Adding marketable skills to your resume 

If you are looking for free online courses for yourself and/or your employees, check out the following sources for free courses in almost anything—literally! 

Fall Foliage Trips

Fall Foliage Trips

The days grow shorter. The kids (at least some of them) are back to school. The sweltering summer heat gives way to crisp mornings and falling leaves. For many of us, autumn is a beautiful, magical time when the trees are ablaze with various shades of red, gold and yellow.

If you enjoy traveling to view the fall colors, here are four great places to consider:

Spooky Halloween Trivia

Spooky Halloween Trivia

Spooks and spirits, ghosts and ghouls, leering pumpkins and enough candy flowing around to fill a dump truck. If you’re seeing any of these things in your neighborhood, it can only mean it’s time for everyone’s favorite scary holiday. Want to find out some unusual facts about this holiday that’s become the biggest commercial sales event this side of Christmas? Read on to find out.

Mindset—Wake Up Routine

A positive mindset can be the difference between success and failure; and, during times like these, when the future is uncertain and stress levels are high, a positive mindset is especially important. In fact, your outlook on life may even affect your mental and physical health. Studies show that the health benefits of a positive mindset include:

Your New Home Office: What You Need and What You Don’t

Your New Home Office: What You Need and What You Don’t

During the month of March 2020, the number of U.S. workers doing their jobs from home doubled—from 31 percent to 62 percent—due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, those workers are being bombarded with lists of “must-haves” for their home office.

This may have left you wondering, “Do I really need all that?” So, we decided to put together a list of what you really need and what you don’t. 

Gearing Up for the Holidays: How will YOU celebrate?

If you’re like most people you have holiday traditions going back as far as you can remember. Maybe it was the yearly visit from Grandma around Thanksgiving, or everyone going out to the movies on Christmas night. You may have the usual string of holiday get-togethers where you talk to family and friends you haven’t seen much during the year, or a church service you always attend. Our traditions are part of what makes us who we are. They form the memories we keep all our lives. It should come as no surprise that the holidays might be a little different this year. Like it or not, Covid-19 is here to stay for a while.