Victoria's Blog

I have to confess that “precrastination” was an unfamiliar word/concept to me but instinctively I had to find out what it was all about. The topic of this article seemed relevant, even without fully understanding the term. Precrastination is defined as: "the tendency to complete, or at least begi...

Therather daunting title of this article that appeared on another blog certainly caused me to sit up and take notice. I’m always concerned that my spending/saving habits may be less than perfect when it comes to money. I’m not striving for perfection, necessarily, but if there are ways to conserv...

Scientific research never ceases to amaze me. It’s all the “connections” that appear to turn up.   It seems like scientists continually look into one specific issue and find all kinds of additional relationships.   For those of us who may fear that our lack of regular exercise may be shortening o...

I confess. I’ve reached the age where according to experts, my brain capacity is diminishing or at least has the potential to decrease in capacity in some areas. Already, my memory isn’t quite what it used to be and I try to make daily efforts to keep my mind active and alert. A list of activitie...

In keeping with my love of lists related to helpful ideas for daily living, here are some thoughts from an article that really resonated. I don't consider myself a huge procrastinator, but I certainly can find what appear to be very plausible reasons for delaying certain tasks. Here are some tips...

The information in the article with the above title certainly isn’t anything new. What caught my eye was the word “simple”.   The methods suggested for relieving stress in one’s daily life have probably been proposed in many, many articles and blogs and expressed in similar ways. Maybe the word “...

As someone who has great difficulty making a decision to buy anything, it doesn’t take much for me to decide just to pass on a particular purchase – no matter the price or degree of need. I would probably benefit by having reasons to buy, rather than reasons to delay. But still, since most of us ...

With a headline like the one above, how could I not stop and read!   Here’s what Nancy Anderson, a career and life consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has to say on this topic.  If you suffer from chronic health problems, your distress may be rooted in the fear of poverty and the fear...

Here’s yet another article with a provocative title that was hard to pass up.   As a former journalist, copywriter,  book editor and now real estate agent who sends and receives a very large number of emails almost every single day – and carefully “revises” almost every single response – I found...

I read this post recently and was impressed because the writer chose quotes from “ordinary” people – friends, colleagues, associates – none of them famous (at least not yet) but all, apparently, sufficiently motivational to have had an effect on the writer. After reading the article I tried colle...