With the advancements of today’s technology it seems like they are showing up everywhere and everyone, young and old, has a cell phone.  Many people are confused on when and where are appropriate times for cell phone use.  Here are a few courtesy ideas to show others before dialing those digits or answering those vibrations or rings.

You might be amazed when you read this article how much of the past you are dragging into today’s conversations and interfaces. You might cringe to learn how you are losing your present to your past. This old, not-working habit deserves your attention in changing it.

So many of us live in the past. We dwell on old guilts, old hurts, old failures. Going over and over these things in our minds becomes most important to us. We begin to do much of our living there paying for old failures, getting even over old insults or hurts, evening up the score. In all those cases, we’re allowing the past to dictate our futures.

A few days ago I had to stop by my local college’s library for a research book for a project I have at work. I needed to talk to a librarian who was not on the main floor of the library, but who had an office on the 3rd floor. When I rounded the corner to enter her office, I was sort of stunned. All I could see of her from behind her desk was her head and shoulders. The rest of her was blocked by the huge piles of paper covering her entire desk. There was not one inch of desktop visible.