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April MIC: Week 4 – Preventing Stress

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged , , , , , , , on April 28, 2010 |

It’s the fourth and final week of Stress Awareness Month.  So far, we’ve talked about stress symptoms (Week 1), identifying stressors (Week 2), and reducing stress (Week 3).  This week’s focus is probably my most favorite stress topic: Prevention and Avoidance. No, not all stress can be prevented — and we wouldn’t necessarily want that [...]

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Week 17: Impact Kids in the Classroom

Posted in Children, Education, Micro-financing, tagged , , , , on April 26, 2010 |

Imagine being an inner-city high school special education teacher with students who read at grade 2.5 level. Your kids have been understandably discouraged by a system that hasn’t worked for them. But, you make inroads. The reading level rises, and best of all, they’re motivated. They want more! You promise them more interesting books at [...]

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Week 16: Momo’s Gift Follow-up

Posted in Personal Development, tagged , on April 26, 2010 |

We hope that this week’s Impact effort brought something to the people we met up with this week. Nils and I can certainly say that Listening brought something to our lives. What We Learned Listening with not just our ears (or ego), but our heart and entire being takes effort! But, it’s a worthwhile effort. Nils [...]

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April MIC: Week 3 – Reduce the Stress

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged , , on April 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Having learned to recognize our stress responses in Week 1, and having identified what our stressors are in Week 2, we can start to try to reduce some of those stressors. Several friends and followers have submitted their favorite ways to reduce stress. Do you have some, too? We’d love to include them later this week. [...]

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Week 16: Momo’s Gift

Posted in Personal Development, tagged , , , on April 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

One of my favorite books was introduced to me a few years ago by Nils. The book is “Momo,” by Michael Ende (better known for his “The Neverending Story”). Momo is the inspiration for this week’s Impact Effort: … what Momo was better at than anyone else was listening. Anyone can listen, you may say [...]

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Week 15: Spring Cleaning Follow-up

Posted in Clothing, Disaster Relief, tagged , , , , , , , on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Rome wasn’t built in a day; our apartment wasn’t spring cleaned in a week. Spring cleaning will continue on for at least another week. We made a decent first go at the bookshelves, our buffet/breakfront, and closets, however, we still have the kitchen and I know there are “tchochkes” hiding in nooks and crannies. But this [...]

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April MIC: Week 2 – Identify Your Stressors

Posted in Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged , , on April 14, 2010 |

From Week 1, we now know our stress symptoms. This week, we’ll become more conscious of what our stressors are — what situations trigger our stress symptoms. This is a very important step toward preventing and reducing stress in our lives. We thank all who posted comments or directly sent lists of symptoms. It is [...]

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Week 15: Spring Cleaning

Posted in Clothing, tagged , , on April 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »

This week’s Impact Effort starts with our spring cleaning! This is something that’s actually overdue, not only because spring officially began several weeks ago, but also because the contents of our closets, bookshelves, kitchen cabinets and buffet/breakfronts are in need of sorting, throwing, recycling, donating, or gifting. We hope that what no longer serves us [...]

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Week 14: Donating Blood, Wrap-up

Posted in Blood Donation, tagged , , on April 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I insisted we arrive before the exhibition/blood donation doors opened at 6 PM. I knew that Nils would be nervous enough without our having to stand in line and possibly watch others with tubing hanging from their arms. His fear was palpable as we descended the stairs to the Passagegalerie. I did what I could [...]

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April MIC: Week 1 – Share Your Stress Symptoms

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged , , , on April 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »

April’s Monthly Impact Challenge has us recognizing Stress Awareness Week. Throughout the month, we’ll work toward better awareness of stress, the impact it has, and find ways to prevent or reduce it. Each week we’ll post information and exercises. We invite you to participate by reading, posting your thoughts and taking the weekly quizzes. At [...]

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