Posts Tagged "black friday"
Weekend Wondering – When the Party’s Over
Are you feeling a bit down today? Or are you just getting revved up for the December holidays? Whatever your reaction to the post-Thanksgiving feast and Black Friday mayhem, it is likely an indication of our cultural addiction to intensity, action, and the resultant stress. We have all become so programmed to the tsunami of incoming information that some studies suggest that people are checking for new messages (of all kinds) as much as every 30 seconds! For those addicted to the urgency, a slowdown of e-mails, news feeds, and family texts cannot be balanced by the slew of Facebook Thanksgiving posts. So, the reaction is two-fold, either we sink into a stupor not sure...
Read MoreWeekend Wondering – Thanksgiving, Families and Leadership
With Thanksgiving around the corner, this weekend is our last before the Holiday Season kicks into high gear. How are you feeling about the Holidays? If you are like most people, a host of emotions trailing back to childhood color our experience of the annual festivities. Thanksgiving has become the time when we gather with family and friends and toast the success of brave pilgrims weathering the challenges of a new world. That is until the food orgy, football games and familial disputes run us into the biggest shopping day of the year. One way to freshen our traditional feelings of thanks this year is to look at yourself and your leadership in a new light. Living the...
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