A few years ago, I came across an old photo of my great-grandmother. She’s standing on the rickety, wooden porch of what could only be described as a decrepit shack, holding a bucket of milk and pouring it into a contraption to separate milk from the cream. Also on the porch with her are two…
Homesteading Mom Is Determined To Teach Her 4 Kids Self-Sufficient Skills That Her Parents’ Generation Missed Out On
On their 23-and-a-half-acre farm in Tennessee, a homesteading mom is teaching her four kids the self-sufficiency lessons that her parents’ generation missed out on, in hopes of keeping alive the skills that served her ancestors. High school sweethearts Cortney, 32, and her husband, Samuel Black, were raised in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. Currently,…
Interpersonal Edge: Bet on yourself!
By Dr. Daneen Skube From Tribune Content Agency Question: I have new career interests, but am not sure I have the skills to take on jobs in these new areas. I would not want to take a new job and fail to be up to the task. What do you advise clients when they’re not…
The #1 Most Important Relationship Skill
I received an outpouring of feedback on my recent blog, “What We Really Want and Almost Never Get,” about the profound importance of listening in relationships. The comments confirm that what men and women alike most desire in our relationships is to be heard without judgment and understood where we are. So many have poignantly…
6 Tips for Getting a New Job
There is a major labor shortage happening in the United States right now. There are many reasons why this might be the case, but regardless of the circumstance, this could be an excellent opportunity for many working Americans. Thousands of new job openings mean that this could be the perfect window of opportunity to chase…
5 Reasons Why Knowing How to Listen Is One of the Most Sought After Skills to Work
By Daniel Colombo The true power of communication is knowing how to listen, not speaking. In fact, I always share the idea that we need to listen 80 percent of the time and speak only 20 percent. It is not only about the economy of words, but that, conceptually, the process of connecting with other people through the use…
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