Call It A Day

Moms love to have a phone call. She'll love a call on her birthday or on Mother's Day; but, she'll probably love a call any day as long as it's from you.

For a particularly meaningful call for her, be...

• Imagine working with a frustrating boss. If you could step back and see, you'd probably see that not everything he's asking for is unreasonable. In fact, some of it is pretty easy to do or is, at least agreeable. And if you did it, it might make the rest of the tasks a bit more tolerable.

Instead of getting a notebook to journal in, get a (large) desk calendar or date book, and then just challenge yourself to write a sentence or two every day, on that day.

This small amount of writing a day feels attainable. By writing it on a calendar, it’s very obvious wh...