Writing Conversationally

Writing Conversationally

Writing Conversationally You want to write an email to someone you know fairly well and don’t want it to sound too formal. What can you do? Use contractions.  You know those words or combinations of words that we shorten by dropping letters and replacing them...
Do You Eat the Frog?

Do You Eat the Frog?

Do You Eat the Frog? What do you do about the tasks you don’t enjoy? Do you leave them until the end of the day or do you do them right at the beginning? Eating the frog means starting your day with the largest, most difficult and most important task first....
Make Room for Not Knowing

Make Room for Not Knowing

Make Room for Not Knowing “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that.”  Pema Chödrön...
Do Fast Diets Work?

Do Fast Diets Work?

Do Fast Diets Work? And are these diets healthy? Watch this 5-minute TED-Ed video on Youtube to  find out (and to learn how dieters in Victorian England would swallow an unhatched tapeworm and let it grow inside them by consuming undigested meals): Is it possible to...