Happiness At Home: How To Manage Conflict At Work
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Kinds of Workplace Conflicts Let’s start by identifying where conflicts happen. Think about the kinds of conflicts that happen around your workplace. Disagreements over turf [...]
Read more Happiness At Home: How To Manage Conflict At Work
Happiness At Home: How To Stop Procrastinating
Andrea Ramsay Speers
This is the second of a series of two newsletters that explore the dynamics of procrastination. In my last newsletter, you learned what procrastination is and why people do [...]
Read more Happiness At Home: How To Stop Procrastinating
Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?
Andrea Ramsay Speers
All of us procrastinate on occasion. For some people, it’s a chronic problem; for others, it’s only a problem in certain life areas. Procrastination is always frustrating [...]
Read more Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?
Happiness At Home: Managing Difficult Life Transitions
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Life is a process of beginnings and endings. In both life and nature, there are times when things move slowly and don’t seem to change very much. Then, suddenly, things change [...]
Read more Happiness At Home: Managing Difficult Life Transitions
Happiness At Home Newsletter: Take Charge Of Your Life
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Goals are good for your physical and mental health. Looking to set some new goals for the rest of the year? Here are a few ideas to get you started: Career Learning Clubs [...]
Read more Happiness At Home Newsletter: Take Charge Of Your Life
Family Meeting How-To’s
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Family meetings can be one of your best discipline strategies as a parent. Here’s what your kids learn from participating in family meetings: Listening skills Brainstorming [...]
Read more Family Meeting How-To’s
Happiness At Home: How People Change
Andrea Ramsay Speers
What Is Happiness? If you are thinking about changing your life for the better, one way to start is by identifying your goals. You are probably hoping to find some version of [...]
Read more Happiness At Home: How People Change
Time To Think
Andrea Ramsay Speers
In the daily grind of making lunches, arriving on time, homework, and all of the other activities that fill our days, it can be easy to lose sight of our big-picture parenting [...]
Read more Time To Think
Problem Solving
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Good communication is important in a family, but we can get stuck when we’ve shared what our issues are, and the person we’re sharing with has a different view. [...]
Read more Problem Solving
Happiness At Home: How To Balance Work And Family Life
Andrea Ramsay Speers
What Is Your Definition of Success? If you want to create balance in your life, it is important to know how you define success. The following list is a place to start. Cross [...]
Read more Happiness At Home: How To Balance Work And Family Life