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How I Maintain My Emotional Health How many times lately have you heard people say, “We live in terrible times”? Indeed, between the challenges of Covid, global warming, and the divisions within our country, sustaining our mental health is a real challenge. Personally, I have been struggling with some long-term health challenges. I’ve had problems with my gait, probably related to an early childhood injury. I also have glaucoma. As I age, both conditions have increasingly restricted my activities. Emotionally, …

To Lead a Better Life Keep track of the daily abundances in your life. Keep track of what you do each day to take care of yourself. Keep track of what you do each day to take care of others. Keep track of what you do each day to take care of the world we live in: our own property, our neighborhood, our community, our country, the earth. Develop a spiritual practice. Call at least one friend weekly. Learn a …

Today’s the day for the Leaders Connect Zoom Zingapalooza. My aim is to lead a virtual meet-up about what is going on in Ann Arbor in the fall of 2021. We have a star studded cast of presenters including: David Ablauf, Associate Athletic Director U of M Football Ari Z, Founder of Zingerman’s Kathy Sample, Co-founder of Argus Farm Stop Matthew VanBeison, President of U of M Musical Society Ellen PutneyMoore, Director of Michigan Theater Foundation Robin Pollak, Owner of …

Stop comparing yourself to others. Do you want to destroy your self-esteem? Do you want to make yourself anxious and depressed? A simple way to accomplish this is to constantly compare yourself to others. When you see something in others that you wish you had in yourself, ask yourself, “Do I want to trade my life for theirs?” Maybe they have a Porsche. What do you think it took to get it? Maybe it was bought with a large loan. …

Shakespeare said it best: “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble” Today, as we look around our country and our world, we can see more than double the trouble: Yes, we have fire. Yes, we have the delta variant. Yes, we have racial, gender and class tensions. Yes, we are already in the midst of global climate change. Yes, all of these and more are global problems. Often, our prevailing mindset about these is that they are too …

As we approach the fall of 2021, we have the promise of going back to the pre-Covid ways of functioning in our society. I have learned that we can never go back to the way things used to be. We are not going back to the past; we are going to create a new future. While we do not know what the future will look like, we have the power to shape the future as thoughtfully and positively as we …