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Resilience 101 has recently launched a Merchandise collection. The decision to branch into merchandise was made for two purposes: It is hoped that proceeds from sales of relevant merchandise will return sufficient profits to pay Resilience 101 site contributors, so that more time and attention can be focused on researching and creating increasingly high-quality content and resources;... Continue Reading →
by Dr Kerri O'Donnell. My young adult daughter stumbled upon a Facebook post by a 'Mommy' who professes to be an Activist. The woman describes herself on her official public figure Facebook page as: "I make videos. I rant. I speak places. I love my 10 kids and my hubby. I do it all because... Continue Reading →
by Dr Kerri O'Donnell. Rarely have I ever been so angry... My daughter and their partner have been living rough for almost three years. Not on the streets, but not with the security of a place to call Home either. Basically, they have been couch-surfing; staying in the spare rooms of friends or relatives while they... Continue Reading →
“An integrated approach to workplace mental health seeks to simultaneously prevent work-related harm, to promote the positive aspects of work, and to manage mental illness as it manifests in the workplace.”
We all have policies and procedures, right? Periodic targets, motivational signs in the tea-room, managers for this and that, and performance reviews... and maybe you are right now looking into new performance metrics to understand your business better. Well, what if there are easier and less risky ways of encouraging employees to do their best for... Continue Reading →
Everyone loves when rock-stars donate their time and skills to help people out, right?
Best-selling author (and generous mentor), Mark Dawson, is one such rock-star, donating all proceeds from his current novella to fund his friend’s breast cancer treatment.
All his professional team (editors, designers, formatters, etc) worked on it for free. Writers and readers around the world are also uniting to spread the word – and I’m proud to be part of such a group.
I think a lot about my mother, and what an excellent role-model she is, in her humble and unassuming way. She is the epitome of resilience, taking whatever life throws at her and turning it into good – always for the greater good of others.
After the deaths of her husbands (yes, two of them), she worked so hard to make sure we never felt poor or neglected in any way. And her generosity was always extraordinary, even though we never measured anything in terms of cash or material possessions:
My Mum
Whatever little she earned throughout her life has always been used to make our lives easier in some way or another, but the thing she made sure she had and shared abundantly, was her time. She has always had time for us.
Even now, at 70 years old, she is full-time carer of her own mother, and any days that she is relieved are spent caring for grandchildren or visiting her 99 year old former mother-in-law to ensure she has company at the nursing home.
My mother is a Good Person. The best I can be, as a person, is more like her.
Nancy Roman‘s beautiful description of her own mother reminds me of why I always choose a single scoop of icecream.
When people talk about “Attitude.” they are usually referring to a bad one.
I know what that means. I was told often enough that I had a “Bad Attitude.” Usually by a boss because I showed a lack of tolerance for a stupid decision. But that was early in my career, and it was quite true. But I learned. I learned that I couldn’t make every decision for my company, and even decisions that I disagreed with may actually work out. And I learned that my co-workers were mostly just like me, trying to pay their bills and make it through the week. So I kept my bad attitude for big stuff – immoral or unfair behavior – both at work and in my personal life. Which meant that, overwhelmingly, my attitude was tolerant and happy. My attitude was kind.
It takes a lot of courage and patience to articulate truth when wider society is so adept at, and chronically intent upon, "criticizing, finding fault as if there were a reward for it" (Zig Ziglar). Robin was invited to share the following work with Resilience 101 because it is an eloquent and deeply personal expression of the... Continue Reading →
No matter how well-intentioned your study timetable is, you are unlikely to follow it for long if it does not also include other regular activities that take up your time (such as work and sport) as well as those that make you happy and reduce stress (such as hanging out with family and friends, and your favourite hobbies). Include them all in your timetable, so that you break up the work periods with things that calm you, clear your mind, or allow you to stay fit and healthy.
As soon as you find out the due date of each Assignment or Test, for any of your subjects, enter it into this Template Assessment Planner so you can see at a glance all your deadlines for the term. Remember to also include any special events, such as weddings, birthdays or other occasions that are special throughout semester.
I’m convinced that the largest part of academic success is about being organised. And it’s not just a matter of having a timetable – it’s about how you structure your time to take best advantage of your peak thinking times, and so on. And it will be more helpful for the long-term if it is not just all about studying.
Use this Template Weekly Timetable to schedule regular study periods for each of your subjects – and also make time for your personal commitments and fun activities.
STEP 1: Fill in the times that are non-negotiable. EG times you have to go to classes, work, church and/or other regular commitments.
STEP 2: Pencil in the times when your thinking is not at its best. (Be serious about this part – it’s not helpful to just pencil out the whole rest of the week!) We will return to these times later.
A limited number of student scholarships to the 28th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference are available. The conference will be hosted in Nashville, TN, June 18-23.
The scholarship includes free registration to the Main Conference (June 19-21) and two ACFE polo shirts.
In return, scholarship recipients are required to assist ACFE staff in various areas for a minimum of five hours during the conference.
Every effort will be made to assure minimal conflict between volunteer sessions and the conference sessions and networking events the students wish to attend.
Scholarship winners are responsible for their own travel, lodging and dining expenses outside of the meals provided at the conference.
To be eligible, the student must be an ACFE student member with anti-fraud related academic and career interests and submit the following documents by April 12, 2017:
A statement of 400 words or less describing the way in which their…
This is one of my current projects, which I’m hosting on my personal site.
Please participate, if you wish, by including your comments at the end of the original post. Thank you.
Well, not because I have any expertise on the matter. Not because I want to. Not because it’s easy. Not because it’s comfortable… It’s none of those things. And there are a bazillion easier ways to get a cookie, so it’s not that either.
To be clear up front, I am a a middle-aged 9th+ generation Tasmanian beige-skinned woman who grew up not even knowing there was such a thing as race. I have not personally suffered anything on the basis of my race. Ever.
But racism is my problem anyway.
It is my students’ problem, my friends’ problem, my relatives’ problem, my country’s problem, my online community’s problem; and, thanks to various political influences, it is likely to get poked with a stick more and more often. I am part of all those mini-worlds, and the greater world around them…
I live just outside a rural township, where we have two charity-owned opportunity shops, a couple of for-profit salvage depots and a couple of antique stores. They are great for someone like me who likes to do all sorts of DIY, but there has got to be a market everywhere to supply already refurbished and/or repurposed items. I think this is a fabulous initiative!
Last week I wrote about the Edinburgh Remakery, and how they are trying to foster a culture of repair. It’s one of the most shared posts I’ve ever written, and there’s clearly a real interest in this whole idea. Lots of you have been in touch to share similar projects, including this one from Sweden.
ReTuna Återbruksgalleria is a mall dedicated entirely to repaired and upcycled goods. It combines a traditional municipal recycling centre with a shopping centre, so that people can drop off goods that they no longer need, and then browse for something new – perhaps stopping off at the cafe in between. It’s the first mall of its kind in Sweden, and as far as they know, the first in the world.
Staff at the recycling depot intercept and sort incoming goods as they are dropped off, putting aside those that can be repaired or refurbished…
by Dr Kerri O'Donnell Prime Minister Turnbull wants to change our Racial Discrimination Act to increase freedom of speech (1). I have never heard any Australian complain that we have a freedom of speech problem, so this makes no sense whatsoever. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce agrees, stating that our Racial Discrimination Act is not a... Continue Reading →
A review by Dr Kerri O'Donnell. The importance of movement to discharge of stress is very clear, but I was very interested to read Dr Bessel van der Kolk's description of its importance as a first step to recovery for people with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At the beginning of an interview with Krista Tippett... Continue Reading →
by Dr Kerri O'Donnell The difference between excitement and nervousness is that excitement is knowing what to expect and nervousness is not knowing what to expect. Many people dread public speaking. The secret to overcoming this is to prepare for the worst. Then, when you are prepared, you are free to achieve your best. That's... Continue Reading →
by Bert Fulks ...I still recall my first time drinking beer at a friend’s house in junior high school—I hated it, but I felt cornered. As an adult, that now seems silly, but it was my reality at the time. “Peer pressure” was a frivolous term for an often silent, but very real thing; and... Continue Reading →
Having a close look at where our money is going each month is a great first step toward taking control of the money leaks we don’t even notice happening.
After reading Caitlin’s post, I recommend having a look around her blog at Born Again Minimalist. It is refreshing, and not at all what I expected!
The most effective way to achieve your goals is to set 90-day objectives instead of looking at a looming annual goal or even a 5-year plan. You need to take small action steps so you don’t get overwhelmed and lose your motivation. This applies to anything from losing weight to planting a garden to renovating your bathroom to planning your finances.
I’m a huge proponent of Dave Ramsey’s baby steps program, which includes saving for emergencies (steps 1 and 3), paying off your debt (step 2), investing for retirement (step 4) and kids’ college funds (step 5), and paying off your home early (step 6). The reason this program works is that it breaks things down into small steps. You need to focus your energy – and money – on one goal at a time. People have their consumer debt paid off in an average of two years using…
There are lots of different reasons that people set up their own businesses. Whatever the reason, “many workers realise too late that being an entrepreneur in any form, is not the walk in the park they thought it would be. Here are the five biggest mistakes that usually land them in trouble.”
A lot of people think of freelancing as the low-risk alternative to getting a day job. Who doesn’t want to set their own hours, be their own boss, and blog in bed with a cup of coffee on the side? With no day job to tie us down, we can travel the world; and make money from our blog, while we sleep. Right?
But for most freelance workers around the world, that’s not the life we lead – okay, maybe some of it. But there’s a lot of hard work involved; and clients are often very much like employers, but without the health benefits and paid vacation time.
Thus, many workers realise too late that being an entrepreneur in any form, is not the walk in the park they thought it would be. Here are the five biggest mistakes that usually land them in trouble.
by Dr Kerri O'Donnell I was recently packing up my office at the university, preparing to move on to a different adventure, when I received an email newsletter from University World News that included an article titled "What do students find irritating about their lecturers?" [1]. Of course I opened it. The list of student... Continue Reading →
It is my students’ problem, my friends’ problem, my relatives’ problem, my country’s problem, my online community’s problem; and, thanks to various political influences, it is likely to get poked with a stick more and more often. I am part of all those mini-worlds, and the greater world around them…
