10 Best Bedroom Choices for Better Sleep

10 Best Bedroom Choices for Better Sleep

Your Bedroom, a Tranquil Oasis for Sleep Where you sleep determines how you sleep. How you sleep determines how rested and ready you are for life's joys and challenges. Tweaking your bedroom and your family's bedrooms so they are calm environments doesn't cost a thing...

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What productivity looks like in 2021

What productivity looks like in 2021

Productivity in 2021 I had every intention to “hit the ground running” for 2021. I had a word of the year and a mandala ready to go. So were to-do lists, intentions and every productivity and planning strategy that felt authentically “me”. Don't break the chain One of...

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Successful Habits Made Easy

Successful Habits Made Easy

Have you ever broken a bad habit? Or replaced a ho-hum habit with a good one? When I was in my twenties I smoked. Not a lot. Just about 3 cigarettes a day. My family unsuccessfully tried to shame me out of this habit. But their shame was no match for my positive...

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How Much Sleep Do Kids Need

How Much Sleep Do Kids Need

You know your kids need sleep. You learned how vital it is to future well being and health. You’ve witnessed how everything gets off track when your kids don’t get enough sleep. Yet so many of us ask ourselves at least once a week “How much sleep do kids need?” Why...

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Get kids to sleep after Halloween excitement

Get kids to sleep after Halloween excitement

Even though it comes once a year Halloween presents a challenge on how to get the kids to sleep after an evening of trick-or-treating. It’s not just the sugar rush that makes sleep a challenge. It's finally getting to wear a costume. A costume that gives kids the...

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Sleep in the Heat

Sleep in the Heat

It can be a challenge to sleep in the heat. Here are some tips to help your family make it through the night. When we face a heatwave, summer sleep is can be even more of a problem. The reason is physiological: what happens to our bodies before sleep. The fact is, we...

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Breathing for sleep

Breathing for sleep

When sleep is elusive, one of the best antidotes is intentional breathing. We can be cautious about our daily habits such as caffeine intake Or meticulous with our evening rituals. There will still be those nights when we're not asleep within 20 minutes of lights out....

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Cure distraction with rest

Cure distraction with rest

Distraction is everywhere and the cure is mental rest. Social scientists, psychologists, and productivity experts are gathering data on our distracted culture. Our digital world, overwhelm, free-floating anxiety or even anxiety over reasonable concerns generate...

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Go screen free for better sleep

Go screen free for better sleep

This week is an opportunity to try a family experiment and go screen free for better sleep. It's definitely a challenge to reduce, let alone eliminate, screen time. Yet, like all challenges, the screen free challenge reaps enormous benefits. Not just in terms of...

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Create New Habits in 2019

Create New Habits in 2019

Let's talk about how to create new habits this year. Creating new and better habits can actually simplify our lives. “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.” Horace Mann We all have times in our lives where we intentionally want...

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