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Month: February 2019

Thrive

The Beauty of Sleep: How to Cultivate Inner and Outer Youthfulness with Better Rest

Reading Time: 3 minutes There are plenty of things you can do to help yourself look and feel more youthful. You can eat right. You can sculpt your body through exercise. You can adhere to a skin care regimen. You can even meditate your way to better health. However, without proper sleep, you’re severely hampering — if not completely destroying — all other progress. Here’s how you can get better rest for maximum beauty, both inside and out.

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Engage

Guest Editorial: PUTTING LOVE ON THE BALLOT

Reading Time: 5 minutes When I shook Marianne’s hand that afternoon in Greenville—a packed room of mostly women, women of all stripes—thanking her for putting love on the ballot, she replied, “Yes! It’s time to get radical with our love.” Radical, like love as an “essential existential fact.” Radical, like love is “our purpose on earth.” Radical, like your life depended on it!

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Elevate

Aiding Aging Parents

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s not easy getting old, as the saying goes, and it can be even harder to watch your parents age. Helping parents transition into the later years of their lives can be a delicate matter, but there are ways to help them ease into an elderly stage and cope better with challenges.

Carol Lavin Bernick, former executive chairman of Alberto Culver, navigated this type of life transition with her parents. In her book, “Gather As You Go: Lessons Learned Along the Way,”Bernick offers tips to give and get joy while preserving your parents’ dignity in addition to wisdom on business and leadership, philanthropy, dealing with tough times and being a working mom.

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Engage

Editorial: The Report is Coming…

Reading Time: 2 minutes This thing is going to land in the collective consciousness with a hard thud. All that resolution you’ve been waiting for is not likely to be delivered with the end of the investigation. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. In about 1000 ways this is where things get even dicier, more divisive, and significantly scarier for a lot of people. The day Mueller finishes will be the day the real battle for our country begins.

I am not saying this to stir up a lot of gloom and doom, fight or flight kind of fear mongering.

I am saying this because NOW IS THE TIME TO DOUBLE OR TRIPLE DOWN ON DOING THE THINGS THAT BRING YOU JOY.

Sleep more.
Drink your water.
Eat good food.
Laugh a lot if you can. 
Hug people.

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