Nordstrom’s Employee Handbook — short and sweet

Nordstrom Rules: Rule #1: Use best judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

I found this by accident. I find it very interesting on a lot of levels.

And yes, this is my signal that I am back to blogging. I will try to put out two posts a week. I really want to finish a draft of my book so I can finally put it down one way or another so that is getting most of my writing time.

Because of that, there may be some weeks where my only posts will happen on Mondays. I will endeavor to have one post on Mondays and one on Thursdays.

3 Core Questions | Couples Counseling | Relationships

Robert and Jane (What does it mean to live the three questions?)

ByJoe Martino June 27, 2012

*This post is the fictional conversation that is a fairly typical conversation about being heard** Jane and Robert had met in college. They started out hot and heavy. Married a year later, they moved for his job. While they didn’t like his job or the location of where they lived, they loved each…

Random | Schools

Self-plagiarism. We’ve finally gone over the edge

ByJoe Martino March 20, 2012

I was going to write about e-readers today. Then I opened my school email and received back from my professor a paper that I had recently submitted. There was a friendly reminder from my professor to avoid plagiarism. Sound awful doesn't it? What did I do? Did I copy someone else's work and pass it…

Parenting | Relationships

Dealing with Mommy guilt. Part three (4 steps to change)

ByJoe Martino April 7, 2014

This is part three of three in a short series dealing with parent guilt, commonly referred to as mommy guilt. Part one can be found here, and part two can be found here. For all of the parents feeling guilty about being away from their child, I want to offer these four simple steps to…

Marriage | Relationships

Media Monday (5). Three steps to Problem Solve

ByJoe Martino January 13, 2020

In this video, I discuss three necessary steps for problem solving that all healthy relationships utilize. I blogged about it here for those that prefer reading. Media Monday is a series where I focus on something that I have created in another form of media. It's designed to help cross multiple learning styles.

Marriage | Random

15 things I’ve learned in 15 years of marriage

ByJoe Martino February 27, 2014

In honor of my fifteen year anniversary today here are fifteen things that I think I've learned over the last fifteen years: Marriage is the greatest thing I have ever done. My life is incredibly enriched because of my marriage. I am a different and better man because of my marriage. Marriage is the hardest…

Relationships

Five things every relationship needs

ByJoe Martino February 13, 2020

In our ever increasingly busy society, I fear that we are losing time to educate and learn about relationships. And because of this, our relationships are suffering. Things like personal, emotional and feeling regulation are minimized. As humans, we crave relationships. And for some reason, we seem to be getting worse at doing something healthy…

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