My wife and I watched the pilot episode of The Office the other day. It was funny . . . really funny. I remember watching the pilot in 2005 when it first aired. I didn’t laugh. It wasn’t funny to me. I didn’t get it . . . yet. That first episode had all the…
Archives for November 2017
How Black Friday Spreads
Want to mobilize a large group of people to take action all at the same time? Pick a day and name it. Be specific about the task. Repeat the day and it becomes a tradition. Today is Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. “The Day After Thanksgiving” was always a popular shopping…
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Happy Thanksgiving! Here are two things I learned about this holiday a few years ago: It began during the American Civil War (not Plymouth Rock). It was initiated not as a day to give thanks, but as a day to give thanks to God. Take a few minutes today to read President Abraham Lincoln’s original…
Write Every Day
Well, with some exceptions, I try to write every day, and it’s easier that way . . . And I try to stop—to end the day, knowing where I am going to pick up. So when I come back to sit down at my desk again, I don’t think, “Oh, now, what the devil do…
The Connect and Redirect Technique
When children are upset and unable to think logically, our response is often getting upset and frustrated, too. During these moments, children are thinking exclusively with their emotional right brains. Overwhelmed by the emotion, they can’t think with their logical left brains yet. Rather than force our logic upon them getting angry that they aren’t…
