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3 min

Inventing Quarantine Activity Stations For Our School-Aged Kids

We needed activities for the kids, and fast, to keep them occupied so we can work from home during the #Covid19 lockdown.

Val Lonergan

5 min

A Quick Tactical Guide to Improving your Instagram Time

This post is about managing how you use your Instagram, cleaning out your feed, and limiting your usage of it.

Val Lonergan

7 min

Parenting & working at home during Covid-19 Quarantine: what's working, what's not

I feel compelled to share what it's been like around here these days, adjusting to the recent news that our kids will be home over the ne...

Val Lonergan

5 min

I Went to Tony Robbins’ UPW – 5 Key Takeaways

13,000 people. 71 countries. Lots of screaming and dancing. How one intensive 4-day event changed my life. Check out these 5 key takeawa...

Val Lonergan

5 min

Using Agile At Home: A Happier Family Hack

Want to see how using a workplace solution can improve your parenting game? In this post we share how we’ve applied a key component of A...

Val Lonergan

7 min

The Surprisingly Short Journey to Becoming A Great Reader

My journey to becoming someone who reads often, on purpose, and gets a ton of value out of it was much shorter than I expected.

Val Lonergan

3 min

Our DIY Front Path Makeover

Our home’s front path was the Ugly Betty of home entrances: plain concrete, straight and worn down. With time, its surface got eaten awa...

Val Lonergan

2 min

A Tiny Shift Flipped My Understanding of Happiness

How do we define happiness? For Shawn Achor, the author of The Happiness Advantage, the true definition is more reachable than we think.

Val Lonergan

6 min

How to Make Your (Grown-Up) Birthday Special

For many years now, our birthdays have come and gone like any other day — this is no fun!! Here are some thoughts on that and ideas of h...

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