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Resolution: a declaration of intent to make a positive change in your life on January 1st that you don't intend to keep past February. LOL What do you think about New Year's Resolutions?  Do you make New Year's Resolutions? Please share your thoughts. If you liked this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed and share the link…

December 26th is National Whiner's Day.  While you may think this a rather silly holiday, it does give us a reason to talk about one of the most irritating kinds of communication there is: whining.  And it is fitting that it is the day after CHRISTmas.  You see, during the CHRISTmas season, we all try to act a little nicer, be a little kinder and smile and give greetings to those we meet.  The day after CHRISTmas, that's already long forgotten! lol Black Friday might be the day we all rush to the stores to grab everything we need to save anything we can. However, National Whiner's Day is a time to take back all our CHRISTmas gifts that don't fit, are the wrong color, looked better on...

Earlier this month, I saw an email come across my inbox that troubled me. It was from a source I usually find has solid information on conservative and Christian issues. One Million Moms put out an email plea to boycott Family Dollar Stores accusing them of “corporate greed.” I have to disagree. The email cited an internal memo received by One Million Moms from the company in question, “Only 2 people working per store on Christmas day. Each store needs to do $1100 in sales in order to break even, this is why we only have 2 people working.” They went on to characterize Family Dollar Stores executives saying, while they are “sitting around the Christmas tree with their families, their...

By JoJo Tabares We've all gotten them.  Those cryptic emails that we can't make heads or tails of.  You think..."Whoever sent this, must be trying to tell me something, but for the life of me, I cannot decipher what it could possibly be!" Email is a deceptively difficult communication skill to master.  Devoid of much of what makes up face-to-face communication (inflection, eye contact, body language, intonation and real-time interaction), an email can be misunderstood faster than you can say..."Hey what'd she mean by THAT?" Many people don't fully understand the impact their email can have on their reader and so they neglect to give it the attention it needs in order to produce the desired impression upon its recipient....