Quotes to live by…
It’s really fun for me to look for and select just 8 quotes for this end of the month blog post. This is my third post and if you’d like to check out the other two postings go to: http://www.wisdomenough.com/in-celebration/ for June’s post and to http://www.wisdomenough.com/life-is/ for May’s. That will give you 16 more possible favorites! Here again are […]
A statue to the boll weevil?!
The tiny town of Enterprise, Alabama, is famous for its Boll Weevil Monument, a large monument of a woman holding a boll weevil, located in the middle of Main St. The insect decimated the cotton crops of the South in the early 1900s, which was a devastating blow to the farmers. The statue has a […]
Does positive thinking really work?
You’ve heard the advice/clichés: But do you believe they really work? Is it all just “Pollyanna” thinking? Well, are you familiar with this fascinating experiment done by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer back in 1981? She and her colleagues piled two groups of men in their seventies and eighties into vans, drove […]
What’s Your Comfort Zone?
Everyone has one! It’s that place where we feel safe, where we know what to do and how to do it without a sense of risk. And we tend to stay inside those mental boundaries because to step outside of it means going into unknown territory. And that often makes us anxious. In biology it […]