RYDER AND NICOLE ERICKSON
Designing Your Life
If you feel like life is happening to you rather than you being in control of your life, it’s time to rethink your priorities and revise how you go about your day. By adding more intentionality to your actions, you’re able to design your life in a way that’ll bring...
Five Brain Breaks to Try Today
We’ve all been there. We get a ton of work done during a few hours stretch and then, suddenly ... nothing. Your brain has reached its breaking point, and you’re no longer able to achieve anything productive. Rather than fighting this feeling, listen to it. It’s...
How to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
Have you ever opened your laptop just to stare at a blank screen for hours? You have newsletters to compose, emails to respond to, calls to make, meetings to set up … but you just feel stuck. We’ve been there, too! So, we’ve rounded up our top five ways to get your...
Creating a Growth Mindset in Kids
Kids can learn big ideas from a very young age. This is exciting, but also puts the pressure on parents to be extra mindful of what they’re passing down. One concept to be conscious of is not to tie a child's worth too closely to results-based success. Rather than...
Three Steps for Building Quality Relationships
Focus on your relationships in both business and in life. From the barista who hands you your coffee, the accountant doing your taxes, your neighbor, to your best friend—every relationship has value. But how can you ensure that you’re building quality rather...
The Benefits of Alone Time
Humans crave connection. Group work, team collaboration, and spending time with family and friends are all wonderful ways to invest your time. However, when your battery feels like it’s running on “low,” it might be a signal that you need to recharge and spend time...
Making Wise Investments
How we spend our time today determines what options we have available to us in the future. With so many choices out there, it can be hard to decide where to invest our energy. Fortunately, we’ve made this process a little easier by examining the importance of...
Increasing Empathy
Typically, we surround ourselves with people who have many similarities to us. While this makes for great friendships, it can also limit our perspective and, oftentimes, our ability to empathize with others. While some people might seem more naturally empathetic...
The Importance of Preparation
To-do lists and plans are wonderful first steps for achieving your goals and setting yourself up for a productive day. However, life is always in flux. We often forget that, once we’ve defined what we need to accomplish, we must then prepare to execute our plan....
Why Giving is the Best Present
Picture this: a mountain of presents all beautifully wrapped with big bows on top, and they’re all for you! What fun, right? Of course, we all know how exciting it is to receive presents. We look with wonder at the wrapped gifts in front of us asking ourselves,...