Trick Or Treat: How Much Candy Are You Grabbing [Providing More Value to Customers]

by Gabriel Shields | Oct 7, 2019 | Work-Life Balance

“Trick or Treat”  Do you remember going around your neighborhood dressed up as your favorite character yelling that wonderful phrase? Ah, the days of Halloween as a child. For me, the actual trick-or-treating wasn’t even the most fun part of the night. It...

What Ducks Can Teach Us About Overcoming Failure [3 Simple Steps]

by Kelly Shields | Sep 30, 2019 | Work-Life Balance

Have you ever had that moment where you’re banging your head against the wall and wish you could rewind the clock by a few mere minutes because you just made a HUGE mistake? Yeah, I’ve been there…If you’re anything like me, you tend to lean towards...

A Tip on Overcoming Failure

by Kelly Shields | Mar 26, 2019 | Work-Life Balance

How did you fail today? Not exactly the typical conversation one has around the dinner table, but maybe…it should be. At a seminar I recently attended, the speaker shared about a family who did just that. They went around the table, each sharing their mistakes...

Finding Reality in Your Expectations

by Kelly Shields | Jan 2, 2019 | Work-Life Balance

H ave you ever noticed that there’s a lot of noise in the world? Even working from home I hear the thump thump of clothes spinning in the washer and dryer and the sound of cars whooshing by the open window — somehow creating a vortex so my husband and I can...

Tomorrow is Monday…[How to Discover Purpose in Your Work]

by Kelly Shields | Dec 2, 2018 | Work-Life Balance

Tomorrow is Monday, and like many employed adults working a standard nine-to-five job, five days a week, fifty weeks a year, Monday is rarely a favorite. Not that it’s a particularly bad day, but the overall feeling of Monday is that the workweek has begun, everything...