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Calm the Chaos & Cultivate Harmony: Step 3 – Take control of your mental energy – protect and improve it. harmony mental energy take back control

Over the last two weeks, we covered Step 1 – Taking back control of your time, and Step 2 – Taking back control of your atten...

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Calm the Chaos & Cultivate Harmony: Step 2 - Take back control of your attention. attention harmony mindful present take back control

Calm the Chaos & Cultivate Harmony: Step 2 – Take back control of your attention.

 

Last week we covered Step 1 – Taking ba...

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Calm the Chaos & Cultivate Harmony: Step 1 – Take back control of your time. efficiency take back control time management

There are 168 hours in a week for all of us. If you haven’t read 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vander...

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Video: Cultivate What Matters cooking creative cultivating relationships intentional video vlog

This month's vlog focuses on important relationships. Learning to be intentional in cultivating creative time now is key to m...

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Taming overwhelm Step 2- List, Prioritize, Eliminate, Delegate, and Let Go delegate list overwhelm prioritize

Last week, we covered the first lesson in Taming Overwhelm: be fully present with the person or task at hand. 

This week we ...

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Taming Overwhelm Step 1 - Lessons from the Tsunami. focus mindfulness overwhelm perspective present tsunami

I don’t know a single physician who hasn’t felt overwhelmed at some time, and commonly, felt it very often.  For a long time,...

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Making up stories, AKA Building skyscrapers and suffering.

Who doesn't love a good story?  Well, it really depends on the story, right?  Many of us makeup stories in our heads and beli...

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Christmas 2020 was a success! christmas gratefulness permission perspective

Christmas 2020

 

Christmas 2020 was back to the basics in the Alaska Caylor home. A few of the tools I learned from coachin...

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