Future Trends in Healthcare?

Check out this super thought provoking map depicting trends shaping our health care workforce 2010-2020. (if the graphic doesn't pop up, click the download PDF to view the map and scroll to page 2)

Does this map change your expectations for the future?

Why do I love Seth Godin????

He just might be more optimistic than I am about what each of us can accomplish in the world!

"The World is too much with us"....

...poet William Wordsworth complained over two hundred years ago.  "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."  Today many women would agree with him.  We're chronically exhausted from the "getting"-- the amount of energy spent earning a living and juggling the demands of home and career.  And the reality of the recession means we're paying now for the "spending" of yesterday.

But despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy.  For each of us, what that is will be different.  But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. 

"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us.  We cannot let this continue to occur....
--an excerpt from Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach

It's amazing how the world never really experiences anything new -- it just keep turning.  Wordsworth wrote 200+ years ago, Sarah wrote the above in 1995 and here we are again, experiencing many of the same things.  The big question is, is it again? Or is it still?

Bullying statistics

A 2010 study by the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC) showed that 80 percent of girls and 53 percent of boys reported some type of bullying during high school.

Are you kidding me???  Are you talking to your kids about their experiences of bullying?

For more resources and information on bullying, click here.

Your Brain on Meditation....

I've heard lots of people talk about how good meditation is for us -- and sure, it seems logical.  But for those science-minded skeptics amoung us, a new research article will highlight some of the physical changes that happen in the brains of meditators.

The researchers report that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray-matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.

A more highly functioning brain?  Who doesn't need that??

Worried about your child's weight?

Here is one of the best posts I've ever read talking about the childhood obesity epidemic.  Please read it and see if this approach makes sense to you, too.

Just another reason for me to love my iphone!!!

Ever been blown away by just how smart your smart phone is?  I am! (and slightly scared too)

Here is some research that indicated our phones might provide just what is needed to make prosthetic limbs work better!  Super, duper cool.