short tip:

When you are a sports fan, it's always nice to be cheering for a winning team. So here's to all US Edmonton Oilers Hockey fans out there. Go Oilers Go!
What can I say, my husband's building Ryan Smyth's home.

feature article:

What do you have planned for your Long Weekend?

I love the beer adds for the ever so popular Long Weekend. You know when we all try and cram a lifetime of fun into 3 days off. So as we enter into what our minds think is the extended national long weekend, Summer 2006, our minds are building lists of things we want to experience this year. Basically, we hunkered down for the past 6 months winterizing ourselves, saving our energy for this Annual National Long Weekend season of Fun, Sun and Stories. Now this would be the stretch of time between April 1st and September 30th. This is the time we try and complete all the things we love to do. Golf, fish, garden, renovate, play ball, camp, visit with friends and of course workout.
It is a well-known fact that the passions we have outside of our work lives fuel and energize us for our lives inside our careers. So as we literally head into our first summer 2006 long weekend, I want to make a suggestion for us all. Jot down a list of all the experiences you want to have this summer. And start to cross them off. As you do this, just notice how you feel about your job. Whether your current job is your chosen passion or not, observe how you feel about yourself, your family, friends and colleagues. See how you inspire others around you this summer to go after their un-dones as well.

Here's how it works: motivation is a physics equation, motivation comes from movement. Its inertia that carries us forward. So, by writing the list, movement occurs, moving you forward towards the list. Then perhaps you pick up the phone and make an appointment, that's movement. So literally pick up your pen, and perhaps your feet and move towards your goals this summer.

Jot down some goals in a few general categories:

Physical
Relationships
Spiritual
Mental
Optional Area (Some goal that would really stretch you) This is what I call a Gutsy Goal.

Here is your challenge, cause lord knows we all need a few of these, write down 2 goals in each of these areas for this Summer 2006 National Long Weekend. You have 4.5 months to get it done! And as usual I want to hear all about them. So email me with your goals.

What you the "Shift Happens" Readers said about Joy. When asked the question what brings you joy? This is some of the responses I received.

Sitting and reading a good book
Preparing a great dinner for friends or family
Watching my kids sleep (this one came up several times) perhaps it's because it's one of the few times they are not moving.
Gardening
Painting
Hiking in the mountains
Just getting outside
Lots of answers involving everyone's children
Stopping, sitting down and just taking in the view
A few things that I can't say, because the content was too personal ;o)
Thanks to all of you who emailed me, I had immediate responses to that question.


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