Most of us would agree that love is the primary purpose of every human being on this Earth. Love is universal. But is love expressed the same by everybody?
Love is actually spoken in different languages. Dr. Gary Chapman, author of "The Five Love Languages", has identified the five universal love languages through years of study and counseling couples: Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, and Quality Time.
Do you do the dishes for your partner but never feel appreciated because he or she never offers to do them? Maybe your partner buys you gifts instead. Or perhaps your partner feels you don't kiss or hug them enough, but you say "I love you" on a regular basis? We tend to express love in the ways we like to receive it...but your partner may express and want to receive love in a different way.
By Amanda Ponzar @LivingUnited (Check out the end of this post for FREE Microsoft tools.)
Let’s be clear, I’m a BIG fan of Microsoft. Why? Their corporate citizenship team (whom I’ve worked with for five years) is great. These talented tech experts are committed to changing the world by leveraging Microsoft’s significant resources. I recently attended two Microsoft store grand openings plus their innovative Imagine Cup where students dream up crazy apps or solve major medical mysteries using Microsoft technology. On February 13, I attended Microsoft’s YouthSpark event, their newest powerhouse initiative designed to “close the youth achievement gap in education, employment, and entrepreneurship” (Twitter: @msftcitizenship & @MicrosoftIPC, #YouthSpark).
Microsoft convened nearly 100 Washington, DC government officials, nonprofits, students and more to focus on empowering youth through education and technology. Here’s what you should know and why you should care:
Picking just one topic today was tough as there’s so much going on in the world (like always).
Here are a few recent reads that really got me jazzed:
Interesting Health & Science article “Women’s Work. How biological factors impact job performance” (Time magazine, July 25 issue) that argues women’s biological qualities give them an advantage. Apparently, women suffer more pain because they don’t have “endogenous opioids” (neurochemical anesthetics) like men, but other than that, women are much less likely to be involved in fatal car crashes because they take fewer risks on the road, less likely to be addicted to video/computer games, less likely to use undue force as a police officer and less likely to ride a high-risk market (so do better as investors). What do you know!
Read in Cone’s July 8 blog about the “new wave of environmental packaging” that includes Puma’s “clever little bag” -- a shopping bag that dissolves in hot water and breaks down in a home composter!! The win-win in this corporate social responsibility move (often referred to as creating shared value when it’s a win for the company & the community/environment) is that “sustainable packaging can mean a 30 percent reduction in transportation cost and a 30 percent savings in material and labor.”
Got an email from Sojourners asking me to lend my voice to the “Circle of Protection” to protect programs for the poor which some suspect may be the first on the chopping block for government budget cuts.
Read a Forbes blog that said Bloomberg’s annual analysis of Standard & Poors’ 500 companies showed that more than 90% of the firms have female directors. However not a single company, including Discovery Communications, co-owner of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel, has a board where the majority of directors are female.
This week, UPS donated a bunch of great auction items (Live Nation concert tickets, 2012 Olympics stuff, NASCAR opportunities, etc.) that are now live on eBay’s MissionFish site with proceeds benefitting United Way.
So, all in all, a fascinating week, other than the sweltering heat (100-degrees or more here).
by guest blogger, Dr. Stephanie Siegrist , author of Know Your Bones [Know Your Bones is a WME publication; Dr. Seigrist was asked to contribute to this blog to add her professional voice in the world of healthcare, something many of us neglect; plus she took care of me when I had a dislocated shoulder! YD]
Women carry the weight of the world on their…shoulders, so take care of yours!
It’s hard to do anything if your shoulder hurts. Each is an intricate piece of machinery with a lot of moving parts:
Muscles: for support and movement. Strong muscles are stabilizers and shock absorbers.
Tendons attach muscles to bones. The rotator cuff is made of 4 muscles that merge into 1 tendon to stabilize the ball and socket joint.
Each has 3 bones: the clavicle (collarbone), scapula (shoulder blade) and humerus (upper arm bone). Joints are formed wherever bones come together; the ends of the bones are covered with cartilage.
Joints are held together with strong bands called ligaments, andlined with a membrane that lubricates moving parts. Near the rotator cuff, this membrane is called a bursa that helps that tendon glide between bones.
No, women don't have start-up envy. Or any other kind of envy, when it comes to being start-up, movers and shakers. We may lack a certain body part - which may or may not count when we go to the bank for a loan (I think it does much of the time, but I'm willing to be proven otherwise if you have data refuting my belief), but we want the same things our male counterparts want out of starting a business: success.
This GREAT article on TechCrunch does an excellent job dispelling the myth that women entrepreneurs are different than men entrepreneurs. This is a look at the desires and expectations, not at how differently women and men approach business.
I thought I'd have to write something profound about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) "2010 Global Corporate Citizenship Conference: Frontier Markets. Global Partnerships. Local Solutions." (And yes, that's a 19-word title) Sept. 27-29, but BCLC's bloggers beat me to it.
So, rather than re-hash what's been hashed, here are 7 hot CSR terms you can use so everyone thinks you're a genius:
strategic -- such as "strategic corporate partnerships"
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