Mind Your Own Buttons

CBS Sunday Morning this week featured a sweet story about a magical little button shop in NYC, Tender Buttons. There are buttons upon buttons for every garment imaginable, with prices ranging from 50 cents to $2000. Some of them are works of art and many are vintage with a full back-story imbedded in between [...]

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When I Grow Up I Want to Be an Old Woman…

Today I’ve been sitting in the sweet aftermath of a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and these Michelle Shocked song lyrics keep running through my head: “When I grow up I want to be an old woman…”
And, when I’m that old woman, what I want to reflect on the most are my life’s connections, both [...]

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Focus Pocus – Put Focus on Top of Your To-Do List

Fifteen phone messages need to be returned, 55 emails need to answered, the laser printer needs ink, a proposal needs to be written for a sales pitch, an annual report needs to be delivered in a half hour, your son called and forgot his baseball uniform, six employee evaluations sit on your desk – due [...]

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3 R’s for Being Successful Today

The memory of the original 3 R’s takes me back to grade school, when “Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmatic”, meant the basics in education. The idea was if you nailed the 3 R’s you had a good foundation for learning. And, undeniably, you couldn’t effectively learn other subjects if you couldn’t read or write. Wish [...]

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Bring Your Mother-Energy to Work

Lead With Compassion
Mother Teresa said, “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” As the quintessential world mother, Mother Teresa led her vision and life’s work through an open heart, with kindness and compassion.
Mothers have been on my mind a lot lately. Two friends recently lost their mothers, while [...]

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How Do You Keep Your Cool?

Grace Under Fire
Author John W. Gardner wrote: “We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” During trying times sometimes troublesome situations at work do seem mountainous and insurmountable: shrinking budgets, staffs, client lists, time, etc.

One of the key personal [...]

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Is ‘Happiness in the Workplace’ an Oxymoron?

With the current economic and marketplace stresses being felt by all of us, ‘happy’ is not an emotion many associate with being at work. Here are a few Cashmere tips to get your happy back on in your daily work life:

· Breathe Breaks – schedule 3 to 4 ten minute breathe [...]

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