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Creating a better place to work
Guide Life

Creating a better place to work

Use new findings in psychology to create spaces where you and your family will thrive

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a basic human need to have a space where you feel comfortable, safe and secure. Having a place to rest, refresh and revitalize can help us cope with the extraordinary challenges of farming and the pandemic. While we can’t control everything in our environments, if we pay attention to what we can control we […] Read more
How to help a grieving friend
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How to help a grieving friend

No, you can’t take a friend’s grief away. But you can help

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When a friend has suffered the death of a loved one, we want to help but often we are unsure what to say or do. Even worse, we worry that what we think we should do could be exactly the opposite of what we actually should say, and could cause damage to our friend or […] Read more
woman with wind in her hair
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Lots more time

How to feel less busy while getting more done

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When we ask “Where did the time go?” what we really mean is “I have no memory of what I did.” With commitments to the farm and to the family and everything else crammed into our schedules, it can feel like every moment has a claim on it and that taking time to savour the […] Read more
Organize your photos so they tell a story, Daina Makinson says.
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Preserve those family memories

Got a jumbled box of old photos you’ve been promising to organize ‘someday’? Daina Makinson shares her secrets for getting the job done, and enjoying it too

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When faced with a loose box of old photos, we all feel at sea. The pictures might all be of our family over the generations, but how can we link all the individual photos into some sort of overall sequence, or fit them into some sort of order that helps us put each photo into […] Read more
Our physiology is still adapted to being in nature,” Williams writes.
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Get your nature fix

And make sure the rest of the family does too. Just 15 minutes in nature can cut stress levels

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Being surrounded by wide open spaces and nature is undoubtedly one of the benefits of a farming lifestyle. Unfortunately, as farms get bigger, busier and more high-tech, farmers may find they are spending less time enjoying nature. Even worse, as our children spend more time indoors or on screens, they are losing out on the […] Read more
Pile of documents on desk stack up high waiting to be managed.
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Clutter Busting 101

These tips really will help you take charge of the stuff in your office, and in your life

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Do you feel stressed by the clutter on your desk, the dining room table and the kitchen counter? Are you tired of tripping over things that “might come in handy” someday? Do you have a basement full of stuff that’s too valuable to throw away, but you can’t decide what to do with it? If […] Read more

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