This year has made it easy to let our emotions take over, in both good ways and bad. Yes, it has been easy to be annoyed with a lot of the changes we're dealing with, but that just means it's easier to remember what we have to be thankful for in this life. Here are a few things SEMbio is thankful for this year. 1. Our Health I'm not sure there has ever been a time that has made it easier to reflect on how lucky those of us are who have good health and to realize just quickly it…

We’re going to start with an interesting observation that was published decades ago, called “Parkinson’s Law.”  And no, this has nothing to do with Parkinson’s Disease. 1. Use Parkinson's Law to your advantage Parkinson's Law states that "work expands to fill the time available for its completion." Simply put, this means that if we give ourselves a timeline to complete a task, we’ll take up the entire time we give ourselves. There are a couple of reasons this happens. Mostly, it’s because when we give ourselves more time than the task really takes, then the task increases in complexity. If…