How (and Why) to Recruit Millennials for Your Small Business. Foram shares her insights in a recent article published by NCR Silver. NCR Silver is a point of sale system that hosts a blog called “Small Business Smarts” that has features on business tech, employee relations, growing your business, running a business, managing money and […]
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These days, when you run into a friend on the street and ask them how they are, the answer is rarely “good.” The answer is more often “busy.” We live in a society addicted to busyness. Some of it may be real, but a lot of it is self-created. With so much external stimulus, we […]
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Houston is a trainer, speaker and kindness advocate. He travels the country speaking to schools and organizations about creating lives filled with compassion, character, purpose, and love. We were honored to pick Houston’s brain about what kindness means and how we can better practice it in our everyday lives. Houston’s insights were profound and inspirational. Enjoy!
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This month our ALV theme is Kindness. It’s a theme that really excites me because it’s one that I’m very passionate about. Personally, I have a lot of room to grow when it comes to kindness… but when I have demonstrated kindness in my life, I have found that the impact has been just as beneficial […]
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Our 9 hottest tips for how to achieve your goals and take charge of the year ahead Our ALV theme in January was “Take Charge” – a very fitting theme for the beginning of the New Year. Research shows that 92% of people do not achieve their goals, which is a shame because research […]
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Our theme this month is productivity. I haven’t written a post in so long and so I really wanted to ensure that I wrote something this month. But when it came to the time, I felt incredibly reluctant and resistant. Why? Because, to be honest, the topic of productivity makes me want to fall asleep. […]
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I was hoping that next time I wrote anything about miscarriages, I would be holding a sweet little baby in my arms and could whisper messages of hope to all of those experiencing hardships, “Keep at it. You’ll get there”, “See, miracles happen”, “Keep believing.” Ok, so I still believe all of these things, but […]
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It wasn’t so much a slow and seductive unraveling of my robe. It was more a stark and sudden ripping off of my clothes. There I was. Freezing cold, bare naked. Everything hanging out for the world to see. It was an uncomfortable feeling. Kind of like the excruciating wait after you send your crush […]
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The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal. They are the deepest and often the most painful. The reason is because we do not understand them, and as humans, we crave to understand. We crave to understand our own lives and the world around us… and when we don’t… we suffer from an […]
Read MoreHave you ever been surrounded by people, and yet felt completely alone? Have you ever been completely alone, and yet not felt at all lonely? The truth is, loneliness has very little to do with how many people are around us. Instead, it has a lot more to do with how many people we feel […]
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Last night I got to have champagne and sushi. This morning I had a big cup of coffee! After my first two miscarriages, I didn’t enjoy being able to eat sushi or drink champagne, even though I was allowed to again. It reminded me of the very fact that I was no longer pregnant. Somehow, […]
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Today is my birthday. My feelings and emotions swirl around me like the ocean during a storm. It has been a big year! This time last year, I was engaged to the love of life. Today, I am married to him. So yes, there was a wedding, and all of the amazing parties surrounding it. […]
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