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![Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s Co.Create contributor and new mother Jessica Gross on 4 Ways To Be A Happier Parent- One Mother’s Experiment
1. Learn coping mechanisms for minor annoyances.
2. Remember to balance your own needs with your child’s needs.
3. Remember the big picture.
4. Take time off…
[Images: Flickr users José Manuel Ríos Valiente]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/082905b4397999dd5e86acb1726e86ec/tumblr_mml5ugCBDv1qzt7h7o1_500.jpg)
Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s Co.Create contributor and new mother Jessica Gross on 4 Ways To Be A Happier Parent- One Mother’s Experiment
1. Learn coping mechanisms for minor annoyances.
2. Remember to balance your own needs with your child’s needs.
3. Remember the big picture.
4. Take time off…
[Images: Flickr users José Manuel Ríos Valiente]
5 Ways To Innovate By Cross-Pollinating Ideas
Tina Seelig details how to combine unlike concepts to find the next big thing.
Read the story here.
During our interview with Stanford Professor Tina Seelig, she explains Why Humor Makes You More Creative.
Innovative managers make their workplaces “habitats for creativity”—which entails a break from all the stuffy self-monitoring. That’s where humor comes in…
What Rihanna, Lady Gaga, And Britney Spears Eat Backstage, Rendered As Classic Still Lifes
“Britney Spears orders fish and chips, McDonald’s cheeseburgers without the buns, 100 prunes and figs, and, maybe most crucially, a framed photo of Princess Diana.”
8 Successful Entrepreneurs Give Their Younger Selves Lessons They Wish They’d Know Then
Tim Westergren, the founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pandora:
“Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they’re compelling, be fearless in their pursuit,” Westergren said. Nothing is more haunting than thinking, ‘I wish I had…’”
Read the rest here.
The Army’s Secret Weapon Is This Quantum Physicist, Pioneer Of “Ghost Imaging”
Ronald Meyer’s is the most innovative man in one of the world’s most innovative organizations.
The U.S. Army just made Thompson Reuters’ list of the world’s 300 most innovative organizations after earning 300 patents in three years. At least 11 of those patents have Ronald Meyers’ name on them…
Read more about him here.
The executive producer of The Office talks to Co.Create about the challenges of writing a final season for the long-running show, including how to make satisfying endings for so many characters.
An Artist Attempts To Draw All The Buildings In New York
John Gulliver Hancock is working on a new book called All the Buildings in New York.
This cataloging of buildings has “become an almost ritualistic undertaking, a therapy of sorts, helping me to organize the overwhelming infinity and chaos of New York into something I can know and understand.”
See and read more here.
![Here’s a sneak preview of: Crucial Tips On Delegating The Right Way, So Everyone Wins
Don’t take away the motivation to learn
If you take away the pain of failing, you also take away the big, highly personal, motivator to get it right.
[Coach Whistle: Eurobanks via Shutterstock]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/47b162d05ae40e786d0549d4abd893ef/tumblr_mmhh4kq6nL1qzt7h7o1_500.jpg)
Here’s a sneak preview of: Crucial Tips On Delegating The Right Way, So Everyone Wins
Don’t take away the motivation to learn
If you take away the pain of failing, you also take away the big, highly personal, motivator to get it right.
[Coach Whistle: Eurobanks via Shutterstock]
To Be Healthier, Happier, And More Productive, Stand Up From Your Desk Right Now
“Sitting is the new smoking.” - Nilofer Merchant
If you must sit for work, the proper posture and breathing can help.
After you die, the letters you keep in a box in the closet will no longer be private. But the letters in your email account are a different story. They might remain private, or they might remain forever inaccessible—it all depends on the whims of the email provider in question…
We can all agree that the conference room is probably not where your best ideas are born. Which is why taking a run is far from a waste of time.
The Takeaway: Often, the most productive meetings take place outside the office.
How A Little Graciousness Can Do Wonders For Your Career
Tom Chiarella recently wrote an ode to graciousness for Esquire. Any aspiring lady or gentleman would do well to take it to heart:
Do not mistake mere manners for graciousness. Manners are rules. Helpful, yes. But graciousness reflects a state of being; it emanates from your inventory of self. Start with what you already possess. You, for instance, have a job. Live up to that.
Read more about what it means to be gracious here.
