Jacque's Positive Insights

Do Something Unexpected This Week It’s the end of 2015, Hanukkah and Christmas are over and it’s back to the same old same old.   Hopefully you were able to get this week off, and didn’t draw the short end of the stick to cover the office. While a morning routine sets the tone for a stress-free day, it’s easy to get caught up in the routine of daily life. Many are exhausted by the last week of December and going through the motions until the 31st where we leave work and go home to watch the ball drop.   However, these final four days leading up to 2016 still count! Be “that guy” the one who lives in the moment!   This is the best week to do something different.   The boss is away, the kids are off from school, you have most likely have left overs in the fridge.   Break your routine, shake it up – finish the year with a twist and be open to the unexpected – it will lead to unforeseen. Take the long way home. There may be a wonderful opportunity right in fr

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year to be Kind Is it really helping if we’re in it for ourselves? There’s a new study released in the Yale University School of Medicine’s, Clinical Psychological Science Journal that may lead towards improving the affects daily stress has on our daily health.   After testing the effect of kind gestures on 77 adults for two weeks, Yale scientists came to the conclusion that when being helpful, folks are less likely to be affected negatively by daily stress. It appears that when we help others we can also help ourselves!   The week leading up to Christmas is known for being very stressful.   Let’s start a trend and test out this new scientific discovery.   Make a decision to perform 5 helpful deeds starting this morning. Carve out a little positivity for yourself this week while making small changes in how you interact with friends or co-workers.    Perhaps some day down the road there

Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow Must be something inside ~ Adam Ant, British musician (Adam & the Ants) What are you made of?   Most of us would like to believe we are decent people doing our best, being a good friend, enjoying life and a provider for our families. As we’ve grown, youthful vices have been replaced with responsibility and healthier choices.   Are you keeping an eye on what you eat and drink?   Have your values evolved as you’ve released lingering negativity? That doesn’t mean that we cannot share those light-hearted activities that amuse us.   Just because you no longer drink, smoke, follow fashion or perhaps find words harder to come by, don’t extinguish the activities that add a little levity to your day. Adam Ant hit the nail on the head in the lines quoted above.   We may have given up the vice, but somewhere inside the “subtle innuendos follow,” our happiness comes from the inside. Rea