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What is with this focus on Critical Thinking? Have you noticed school report cards now focus on critical thinking? You get extra remarks for “thinking outside the box”. This may be a very empowering phrase for 20-somethings and 48-somethings. Especially for those who have grown up hemmed in with rules. But what does it mean to a kid in Kindergarten? If you want to think “outside the box”, you have to: First figure out the box … The longer read In the associated story — Canada Goose ON, Autopilot OFF — we talked about critical thinking as an EQ skill....

I had a lot of questions growing up: Why do grown-ups have these things that they call ‘jobs’ and why do they have to do it every day? Why do we have to ‘work’ and ‘build a career’ anyway? What purpose does it solve, really? Why should I go to bed early? Why not have only a bowl of maggie for dinner? The questions got weirder as I grew up: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? Wait, what is ‘purpose’ and ‘meaning’ and why should I find it? Should I? Or is that...

“Mom, I just got back from the grocery store… when did everyone start baking bread?” I apparently wasn’t the only one who had the great bread baking obsession. I had just made my third trip to the grocery store looking for flour. I combed the racks, even risking my life attempting to climb to the top shelf (disregarding the sign that said not to). I knew that’s where they hid the overstock. It’s been 3 weeks now, and the stores are still out of flour. I scrolled through Facebook, and recognized the problem immediately. There was not one, nor two…...

In his book, The Tipping Point, Mr. Gladwell does not assert that childhood has a ‘tipping point’ but I believe childhood has an inexhaustible number of ‘tipping points’.  I’d be willing to bet anything that you totally agree with me.  I have little doubt that if you took a second to reflect on your own childhood you’d remember some seemingly trivial incident that undoubtedly impacted the course of your life. Recently, I was asked to reflect on my life and my childhood.  Upon reflection, a couple of tipping point moments immediately came to mind. I WANT TO RIDE MY BICYCLE During the...

— In Part 1 of this series about Getting Healthy and Fit, I covered some Rules for Eating Healthy. Today, I will cover some Rules for Exercising, and tomorrow I plan to write about Sticking to an Exercise Plan. First let me say: eating healthy is a great foundation for getting fit and healthy, but exercise is what will really get you there. Actually, you can do one and not the other, but you’ll only be halfway there, really. You need both. Rules for Exercising I have been exercising fairly steadily for more than a year now — starting in...