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Today is take your houseplants for a walk day.
Well, I’m not sure that I am going to take my plants for a walk, but I will try to be nicer to them.
Many of my plants have ‘taken a walk’ to the dump when they failed to survive my watering and care routine (or lack of). 
After reading a report from NASA where they found that some houseplants were able to remove up to 87 percent of air toxins in 24 hours, I decided I needed to give houseplants another try.
I found that some species of plants and I do very well, others, and others, I had to give up on.
According to a University of Agriculture Norway study, indoor plants can reduce fatigue, coughs, sore throats and other cold-related illnesses by more than 30 percent, partially by increasing humidity levels and decreasing dust.
Washington State University found that participants in the presence of plants were less stressed and reacted 12% more quickly than those in the absence of plants.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!  Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Take Your Houseplants For A Walk Day:
Give a houseplant a try, after all plants can reduce stress. 
Look for varieties that are low maintenance.
However, if trying to have a green thumb is creating too much stress in your life, forgo the growing at home and go out and enjoy the gardens of someone else.
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What is Workplace Culture?
Workplace organizational culture is defined as the attitudes, values, and beliefs that shape the workplace environment. The culture or these “unwritten rules” can impact employee morale, productivity and health. It plays a key role in predicting workplace satisfaction and stress levels and provides the foundation for workplace health.
One of the most often neglected areas of workplace culture is the social support that is given and received in our teams. It is seen as an ‘extra’, a social nicety, or something to focus on if you have time.
With more people living alone or separate from extended family and friends, it is critical that we are as diligent about our social well being as we are about our physical well being.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!  So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Social Wellness Month:
July is Social Wellness Month and it reminds us that we need to reach out to others and build stronger social ties with co-workers, family and friends.
Social connection provided by friends and colleagues may ward off depression, boost self-esteem, and provide support, along with fewer cardiovascular problems and immune problems, and lower levels of cortisol. People with strong social connections feel more relaxed and at peace, which is related to better health and a better bottom-line.
Workplace celebrations are an important part of social wellness and can range from monthly birthday parties to rewards for team accomplishments.  It’s about making connections and knowing that you’re a part of something bigger than yourself. 
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Have you experienced this?
The driver in front of you is going slower and slower on the highway as they talk on their phone
You are in the bookstore when the person walking beside you has their phone go off breaking the peace and silence.
You are sitting at a restaurant enjoying the company and the meal when the person next to you engages in cell yell.
I think that we have all been exposed to poor cell phone etiquette.
Are you attached to your cell phone?
I don’t particularly like mine.  In fact, I keep it off most of the time, unless I need to call my husband or remind my kids of something if I am on the road.  But it is getting harder and harder to do that.
Cell phones are an integral part of our technology-based world, and they won’t be disappearing anytime soon.  However, if we all practiced a little more courtesy using our phone, then maybe cell phones would not seem so annoying and intrusive.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Cell Phone Courtesy Month:
Evaluate your own cell phone practices:
Make sure you keep it down. No one wants to hear you on the phone
Love the vibration. Use your phone’s vibration mode when in public
Try to excuse yourself when accepting a call in a group gathering
Focus on the task at hand, not your cell phone
And try to make the Person You are With Feel Like the Most Important Person you want to talk to
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Did you know that going through the drive thru naked is illegal?
In 2012, a naturist was found guilty of “partial nudity that offended public order” for incidents that occurred in 2008 and 2009 as he went through a drive thru.
Today is National Drive Thru Day and while it is not recommended to go through the drive thru naked, we know that many of us will go through at least one drive thru today.
Eating out is no longer a special event, but a practical alternative to eating at home when no one feels like shopping or cooking.  Decisions about ‘what’s for dinner?’ reflect a solution to an equation that involves three variables: 1) what’s on hand in the fridge, cupboard or freezer, 2) the time available to cook and eat and 3) the urgency of hunger.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating National Drive Thru Day:
Drive thru foods are not all bad.  It is possible to make some wise choices, but it can be difficult if you don’t consider the options before you are about to order.
Examine your life and do a rhythm check.  Are you pushing and rushing most of the time?  If so, consider altering your drive thru behaviour slightly to allow yourself the opportunity to slow down, take your time eating, socialize and enjoy the ‘whole’ meal experience.
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I am blessed to have had a grandma who was a huge influence on my life.  She made me feel accepted, wanted, and truly loved.  I loved how she could dress it up for a night out and she could get down and dirty in the garden.  And she was gorgeous.
My sons were blessed. They had 3 great grandmas and 3 grandmas that got to share in their early years.  I hope that they remember them as being gorgeous women and that beauty is not about what is on the outside but what is on the character of the soul.
Our worth is not about the job that we have, the goals that we achieve, or the beauty of our youth.  Jobs change.  Goals change.  Looks change.
Our beauty is in the connections that we make with others.
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Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Gorgeous Grandma Day:
Don’t Be Someone You’re Not. I see young girls who put on ‘airs’ and try to mould themselves into the popular image of beauty. If you have young girls and women in your life, help them to see that beauty is about so much more than that.
Tell the gorgeous women in your life what you see when you look at them.  Don’t describe their physical beauty, but what you see that radiates from their heart or the positive impact that they have on those around them.
Having had a gorgeous grandma, I can only hope that I can make as much of a difference in someone’s life like her.
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Our world is changing and sometimes that change is difficult to keep up with. Sometimes we see the need for the change, but we don’t know how to move forward. Sometimes we want the change and we look for ways to push it forward.
I grew up in rural Ontario where my cousins and second cousins and so on were my neighbours and classmates. We looked like each other and we sounded like each other. I had 3 local TV stations, and we watched very little TV except for hockey, which I tuned out.
I don’t remember giving skin colour a second thought. I went to University and I still don’t remember giving it a second thought.
It wasn’t until I lived in Toronto that I remember hearing some of my first racial slurs.
I know that 30 years later, I have said or thought things that were racial generalizations in reactions to activities, sayings, or even music.
So here we are in the midst of turmoil and I am still seeing arguments around Black Lives Matter versus All Lives Matter. I absolutely agree with both statements. Black Lives Matter. All Lives Matter. Your Life Matters.
My life matters.
However, I can not remember a time where my skin colour has put me at a disadvantage, or made me looked down upon as something less, or put me at risk, or seen as dangerous.
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So what can we all do…Listen and show up.
Listen to each other.
Show up and be willing to acknowledge someone’s experiences, no matter how different it may be to yours.
By listening and showing up, by opening up in this way, we can examine where we can push change forward. Where we can make the necessary impact. We all have a role to play in making that happen. It’s needed and long overdue as Every Life Matters.
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