Research Monitor Weekly Newsletter - 25-Jul-12

🍎 A Spoonful of Love: Tiny Bites, Big Milestones

The past month has been such a special chapter in my motherhood journey: we started introducing solid food to my little girl, and what a journey it has already been! At just 7 months old, she has begun exploring flavors, textures, and her own tiny routines around eating. For her, every bite is an experiment--a playful, sensory adventure. for me, it is a mix of pride, excitement, and sometimes even longing, because I don't always get to be there for every meal; those tender emotions only a mother can feel. During the week, my husband and I are at work, so her nanny takes care of most of her meals. we prepare her meals carefully at night after work--boiling, mashing, keeping everything simple and gentle for her small tummy--and in the morning, we give her nanny clear instructions on what to feed her and when. Even tough we are away, a part of us is always with her through the meals. But the highlight of our weekdays is always her afternoon snack, when one of us come home and give her...

Mental Bottlenecks: A Mindset Reset for Better Results

We all want to be productive, decisive, and in control of our time -- yet for many, three sneaky habits quietly run the show: overthinking, procrastination, and poor time management. Individually, they're disruptive. Combined? They create a mental loop that keeps people stuck -- not just in their work, but in their relationships, goals, and even sense of self-worth. While i don't personally wrestle with all these three issues in the same way, I've seen them impact others deeply -- friends, colleagues, even loved ones. And what's consistent across the board is this: most people don't even realize how much these habits are draining their time, energy, and potential. If there's one thing people impacted by these three problems have learned over the years, it's this: they don't need enemies when they have overthinking and procrastination on their team. They've been sabotaging their productivity for far too long -- and time management? Well, it's the...

A Year Bearing its Marker

If 2020 were a TV show, the first draft would be terrible. what kind of show would it be? It could be a comedy, tragedy, thriller, political, drama, medical procedural, fiction, horror, or all of those rolled into one. what happens when political disfunction meets a deadly virus? Like it or not, we’re barreling toward the final episode, and no one knows what’s going to happen. Will there be a satisfying ending? Or one of those unsettling, vague ones? Will it be an ending at all? This is a year we want to forget, but we will not. Just over the first six months of this year, we knew it would be a benchmark year. It has cost us a summer of pleasure, of travel and of living life the way we want with our treasured freedom. We have missed out on concerts, parties, ceremonies and gathering in groups. We have set aside handshakes, kisses on the cheek and big hugs. When the academic year began in Fall 201 9, few would have predicted the changes in classroom routines and the early...

Celine Salloum

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