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May MIC: Random Acts of Kindness

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Random Acts of Kindness, tagged , , , , on May 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Whether your life or those around you are touched, whether you read or watch the news or not, you can’t help but know that worldwide, the economy is less than stellar. It’s causing anxiety for many and, sadly, even hopelessness and depression. And, we believe that the disturbing initiatives in some States in the U.S. [...]

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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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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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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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March MIC: And the Winner is …

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged , , , on April 1, 2010 |

Last month, we challenged friends and followers to submit ideas for Weekly Impact Efforts. We asked that they be “bite-sized” and things that Nils and I would be able to do within a week’s time.  The winner would be whomever submitted the most number of ideas that we felt we could put into action. A [...]

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April MIC: Stress Awareness Month

Posted in Diseases, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Stress Awareness Month, Stress Management, tagged , , , on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »

NOTE: somehow my index finger hit that “publish” button prematurely. Rather than go back and delete it, I’m publishing tomorrow’s April 1st (no joke) blog today. We’d like everyone who’s never stressed out, to jump up and shout out, “Hurrah!!” … … … … Hello?  … Anyone there? April’s Monthly Impact Challenge will be in [...]

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February MIC: Winner and Wrap-Up

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Water conservation, tagged , , , on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

We were ecstatic over the response we got to February’s Monthly Impact Challenge, “Green Our Home.” As you’ll see below, so many friends and followers submitted good and excellent ideas for making day-to-day life greener and more eco-friendly. We thank all those who participated. But, there was one person who gave the most tips that [...]

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March MIC: Cool Prize for Your Ideas

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged , , , on March 4, 2010 |

Earlier in the week, we announced this month’s Monthly Impact Challenge.  And, we promised that later in the week we’d announce the prize incentive.  Well, it’s later in the week! The follower who submits the most Impact ideas that Nils and I believe we can put into action, will choose between one of the following [...]

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March MIC: Finding Impact Ideas

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC) on March 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »

We hope that this month’s Monthly Impact Challenge* (MIC) will get some of our creative friends and followers involved. Get those juices flowing! Frankly, Nils and I have a decent list of ideas for what kind of impact we would like to make. But, a lot of what we do is made that much more [...]

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January MIC: Results

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC) on February 1, 2010 |

As our first Monthly Impact Challenge comes to a close, we’ve discovered we have some things to learn. The challenge for January was to collect and donate canned food to your local canned food drives.  It turns out that this is not necessarily the most effective way to have Impact. Friend and follower, Ricki, points [...]

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