Sean D. Francis

I woke up on time, started making coffee, laid back down while the machine did it’s magical mystical marvelous job and accidentally fell back asleep. In my second effort to get up I decided to check out Twitter and see what has been happening in the world at 140 characters at a time. I caught [...]

Everywhere I read, I see people writing about their resolutions for 2011. Weight-loss, stop smoking, and a variety of self-improvement steps are all resolved. I know a lot of people have jumped on the anti-resolution bandwagon. They decry resolutions as a tool of procrastination. Don’t put off ’til tomorrow what you can do today. There [...]

From this blog’s previous entry, I know that posture does have a biological effect on the human body.  Certain postures associated with ‘being in power’ actually create more testosterone in the body while decreasing the hormone associated with stress – cortisol.  As irrational as it may seem, this means if a person is lacking confidence [...]

Yesterday, I presented a blog post about how to thrive in life and one of the elements in that post was about forgiving yourself. That element really tripped me up and I spent the day pondering it. My pondering turned to reading, and the reading culminated in this follow up. Forgiving yourself is one of [...]

Ririan Project presents a great blog post, How To Help Yourself Thrive in Your Daily Life, on going beyond day-to-day survival to day-to-day thriving.  I love these very simple suggestions, but my inner pessimist (inner? seems to be on the outside) rankles a bit at some of these because they are stated in such a [...]

Why does Friday get all the love? I still have to go to work on Friday.  The only difference between Friday and Monday is I’m looking forward to the weekend on Friday.  Even if I have a bad day on Friday, I still get the weekend.  So the real difference between TGIF and TGIM is [...]