Eileen McDargh
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Eileen McDargh
- Aug 10
Six Tips for Taming Information Overload
Technology is a wonderful and terrible thing. We have an app for everything, and people can reach us with the press of a button. With so...
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Tresha Moreland
- Aug 3
Leading While Exhausted
The simple truth is burnout makes it difficult to lead others through challenging times. As leaders, we tend to push through it. We work...
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Eileen McDargh
- Jun 29
Summer Solstice Sends Solace
Today we start the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere—June 21. I just returned from Fairbanks, AK where tonight a...
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Eileen McDargh
- May 18
Forget Anniversaries—Go For Montheraries
We were married on May 18, 1980—the second marriage for both of us. I came into the union with an old Camaro that was paid for and...
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Eileen McDargh
- May 11
Three Men In Search Of A Leaf
That was the caption I put on a photo I can no longer find because it was before the age of iCloud and digital.
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Eileen McDargh
- Apr 13
Improvise To Strategize
I am a firm believer that at some point we all must go to the college MSU—Making Stuff Up.
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Eileen McDargh
- Apr 6
Nature for Nurture
Seems like I always came back better than when I had left the confines of a school room.
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Eileen McDargh
- Mar 23
Your Brain: Move It Or Lose It!
I often hear myself saying, “If I don’t exercise in the morning, my brain doesn’t work.”
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Eileen McDargh
- Mar 2
If Your Get Up and Go Got Up and Went…
It’s time to plug into something that YOU choose—something that can renew your batteries and refresh your interest in work AND life.
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Eileen McDargh
- Feb 23
From Nothing to Something: Hope in a Flowerpot
As my brother has done every December, the flowerpot arrived.
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Eileen McDargh
- Dec 8, 2021
Men Work Hard
“Men work hard but women work miracles”—Ricky Gervais. What a statement from the fearless British comedian.
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Eileen McDargh
- Sep 15, 2021
The Power of Boundary Setting
When Robert Frost penned, “good fences make good neighbors”, he was thinking of sheep wandering to a neighbor’s garden.
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Eileen McDargh
- Jul 7, 2021
Leading through Loss
Certainly, 2020 and into 2021 have been marked by tremendous loss. First, for many of us, we lost parents, siblings, children, and...
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Eileen McDargh
- Jun 13, 2021
Hurry Up and Wait
Resiliency is a life skill, offering those of us who use growth potential strategies (GPS) as a way to become wiser, stronger, and better...
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Eileen McDargh
- May 19, 2021
Mind-blowing Ways to Spark Sustainability
Quick! What do old denim jeans, wine corks and ice cream have in common? Nope—not a funky picnic!
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Eileen McDargh
- May 12, 2021
Sustainability Serves a Student
April 22 – Earth Day-- has come and gone. But for those of us committed to saving a planet, the work is never over. And for my...
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Eileen McDargh
- Apr 21, 2021
A Name Tag for Kindness
The world is slowly opening. Hopefully, our first trip will be to drive in mid-June to Corbett, Oregon. We haven't seen our daughter, her...
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Bill Jensen
- Apr 19, 2021
Turning The Not-So-Normal Day Into Awesome
Post-Covid: It’s time for new, simple, daily practices that change your day, and your life.
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Eileen McDargh
- Apr 18, 2021
Mighty Mites Make Music
“It’s not the size of the bird in the song. It’s the size of the song in the bird.”
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