Archive for March 2017

What’s the biggest battle facing you today? – SCN Encourager

You know what they say about choosing your battles carefully. I sure do! For proof – Here’s my track record! (AKA = my real-world box score) When I tally up all of my assorted skirmishes on the home front over the years (both major and minor, cross-tabbed for all categories: marriage, finances, and children), you’ll see my won/loss…

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Could your district use better “storytelling?” – SCN Encourager

You’ve probably wondered about this before. I’d bet on it. Especially since that’s about all that’s left for me to bet on now. My March Madness bracket blew up days ago. But I know you’ve heard laments like these before. We have a wonderful school district. We need to tell our story. People don’t know our story.…

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Bracketology and how I’ve achieved perfect work & home life balance – SCN Encourager

It has nothing to do with choosing winners I’m NOT talking about basketball. My NCAA Tournament Bracket went to crap about 12 days ago. But I’m still keeping an open mind about all the fuss with brackets, though. Todd Herman – the insightful life coach I wrote about on Friday – recommends “bracketing” to his high profile clients to similarly pair off their personal…

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Is Time your adversary? Simple advice from a premier life coach – SCN Encourager

Time affects us equally. We’re overwhelmed. We’re overcommitted. And all that saves us from total collapse is the fact that TIME is finite. Otherwise we’d try to stretch even more of it onto our schedules. Why we even bother to run ourselves ragged under the delusion we’re successfully “managing” our time is beyond me. And you know me, usually I’m the Grand…

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