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There’s IQ, EQ (emotional intelligence) & now GQ (guts or grit quotient). A little girl puts her nose to the table, eyes wandering everywhere but the fluffy marshmallow in front of her face. She’s part of the famous marshmallow experiment, which showed that kids that could delay … [Read more...] about Getting it on with GQ (but not the way you think)
It’s the season for magic. It’s in the air. Magic has been a theme for me lately, what with my discovery of my Nana’s magical kingdom & my upcoming website redesign influenced by my archetypes (one of which is alchemist- bring on the magic of transformation!). Magic is … [Read more...] about How to Banish Pinball Syndrome & Rock Your Pinball Wizard
‘Do you get headaches doing that?,’ my boyfriend asked me, genuinely puzzled, while peering over my shoulder. ‘Say what?!,’ I thought, confused as mud, as I continued making my lists, relaxing into the task of sorting through the flotsam & jetsam of our lives & putting it all down in neatly … [Read more...] about From mud to migraines – how marrying my opposite gave birth to Life Lenses®
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How do you curate knowledge? How do you access it, expand it, stretch it, use it, share it? It's tough in these days of volume overload where news headlines flash faster than my friend's toddler can go from happy & calm to the world-is-ending-now. That's why I was drawn to this article about … [Read more...] about A tool for accessing, expanding, stretching & sharing your knowledge
Digital literacy. Digital divide. ICTs (Information Communication Technologies), MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Social Media, it's enough to make your head spin. I've gleefully just dived into reading 'Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out - Kids living & learning with new … [Read more...] about HabitRPG- an app that combines productivity with gaming
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— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
