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Values and life goals

What do values and life goals have to do with emotional health and well-being? Values and goals act like an inner compass that guide your decisions and actions as you manage the questions and challenges of everyday life. They can keep you emotionally safe, smart, and steady and they help to give your efforts and activities meaning. When you are pursuing your valued life goals you can feel your are accomplishing important and meaningful things. One way that values protect your emotional health is when you are faced with inner conflict—for instance, think about a time you forgot to ...

It’s high time for the truth

Imagine punishing your kid for telling the truth by taking away their allowance years later. It makes no sense, but that’s the logic behind an assertion by Kraig Paulsen, the Director of the Iowa Department of Management (DOM), that failing to reissue the FY2020 Statewide Single Audit puts ...

RAGBRAI volunteers still needed

Marshalltown is gearing up to welcome thousands of riders and visitors as an official RAGBRAI overnight host, and community volunteers are needed to help make the experience unforgettable. Hosting one of Iowa's most celebrated events is a community-wide effort, and volunteers play a vital ...

How Trump Accounts Platform reshape small business finance

I understand the immense effort required to run a business—long hours, complex supply chains, and personal sacrifices for employees and children. That’s why the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is partnering with you to ensure your hard work leads to lasting stability, supporting ...

Our rights extend beyond mere verbs

Buried words, like buried treasures, sometimes surprise and enrich. But buried landmines only create problems now, and later. Such is the case with a passage buried in a 71-page Iowa Supreme Court decision last month. In a unanimous ruling, the court decided that a law authorizing Iowa ...

After the fireworks

Every December, as we count down the final minutes of another year, millions of Americans make heartfelt promises to themselves and to those they love that this will be the year things finally change. This is the year we'll lose the weight, write the book, run the marathon, start the business, ...