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Daily Intentionality: Intentional by Design
Our tagline here at Rhubarb & Rubbish is to “cultivate an intentional life.” Being intentional…what does that mean? According to our friend Merriam Webster, intentional is something done by intention or design, with a specific aim or plan. As you evaluate your day, how many things did you do intentionally? The older I get the more my work/life balance seems to be NOT in balance, which is why we started this blog as a guide to get us all on track. I feel my “yeses” and “I cans” are given more for work and less for myself and my family. A large portion of our days is more of the…
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End of the year…Now what?
It’s nearing the end of the year when we start thinking about the fact that we need to think about end of the year stuff! It is the time of the year we look at how our year went both in our personal life as well as our business. You may be getting appointments set up with your tax accountant to do a year end review or you may be doing your own self examination of how the year went. Now is a great time to ponder if your business needs to look at some big expenditure, a little more income, or if you are set to stay the course.…
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80/20 Rule for Health
In today’s world, we strive for perfection. Perfection at our jobs, raising kids, our homes, and our health. If not perfect, what should we strive for? Let’s focus on an 80/20 rule pertaining to health. We would love to do everything perfectly when it comes to health, so we feel our best all the time. In reality, we have to realize that life gets busy, things happen (planned and unplanned) and that’s where the 80/20 comes in. Instead of letting the stress of wanting to get to 100%, we need to just go for 80%. Going for 80% is actually the opposite of the Pareto Principle 80/20 ideal. The Pareto…
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Book Review: Love Your Enemies ~ Arthur C. Brooks
We are a short month away from the 2020 election. I keep hearing people say that they can’t wait until it is over so we can go back to normal and some of the social unrest we feel dissipates. I used to say that myself, until I realized that what we are experiencing is the new norm. It’s not going away. At least not anytime soon. And, it certainly won’t if we as Americans don’t start working to heal the wounds we have inflicted on each other. I ran across Arthur Brooks’ book, Love Your Enemies, last year and immediately resonated with much of what he had to say. Brooks’,…