“A willingness to stop for even one minute is a powerful place to start. Stand up and do some gentle stretches, even if it’s just for one minute, sit down and be willing to be with yourself as you are with love and compassion.”
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
Recipes close to our hearts are usually less about where we ate them than who we ate them with…
I am religious and generally conservative. A good friend who is a “free spirit” commented on the fact that I do not allow my son, 24, and his longtime girlfriend to sleep together in my house, saying this could contribute to delaying his becoming a fully functioning adult. He lives at home, is working on finding a job but has no prospects at the moment. His girlfriend also lives with her parents. And just to give you a fuller picture, I have another son who lives with his girlfriend of many years, and I do not allow them to sleep together when they visit, either.Do you think I am doing any harm by maintaining this rule in my home?
Reading this query, my first thought was why the hell is this any of the friend’s business? My second thought was your house, your rules. I am sure this 24-year-old son is not new to his mother’s religious and generally conservative attitude and will find other ways to spend time with his girlfriend once he has obtained a girlfriend. It seems like his focus now is, as it should be at his age, on finding a job. I am unsure how this can delay his becoming a functioning adult. I hope his mother’s rules teach him boundaries, and to stand behind what you believe in. I am also not a big fan of Carolyn, as her reply was “your approach, arguably, could come to harm your relationship with your sons, as they accumulate distance between themselves and their childhoods and lose patience accordingly for morality, policing, and rules. What if they have children with these women? What then?” To this mother I would say stand strong, and if the grandchildren you may have some day start to question this, great. I believe it will open the door for a great conversation around religion and different political views. Regarding adults visiting, they are working adults and should be able to afford a hotel, stay with friends, or deal with their mothers’ rules. I would love to know what advice you would offer this mother.
The More you understand her world, the more possibilities you see…
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
While racism is a deeply complex and difficult issue to tackle, I personally do not want to continue having the same conversations about race relations three years from now because that would mean we have not made enough progress. Our goal should be to move the needle forward. Leaders across all companies should hold themselves and their teams accountable for creating a more inclusive and diverse organization.
And what does accountability look like? Employees should have meaningful “get-to-know-you” conversations with people of different backgrounds and perspectives. That way we can all better relate to one another, personally and professionally. Companies need to have tangible metrics and accountability around those metrics in their hiring and promoting practices. If six months or one year passes by and our companies do not witness meaningful progress toward hiring and creating a more diverse workforce, then you would know that this call to action was not taken seriously.
We have to hold each other accountable, otherwise this moment and movement will be lost. We cannot let this opportunity pass us by. Nor can we dwell on why things are the way they are. We must start making progress today and that momentum cannot dissipate in the coming months and years.
Diversity and inclusion must be at the core of a company’s mission. It has to be foundational to the corporate philosophy. Getting to know people who are from different ethnic and racial backgrounds creates an appreciation for their differences and their similarities. This, in turn, can be an important component toward building and creating more successful, diverse and inclusive companies. – David Miree
