March 22 was the International Day of Happiness sponsored by a positive psychology author and Project Happiness is a non-profit on a mission throughout the year to help people become happier. But what is happy and why do we need movements to help us be happy? Well, turn on the news. How many people are […]
I write often about stress – deadline stress, secondhand stress, workplace stress, holiday stress, and even why we are stressed. I bring up this topic often not only because of the negative health effects of stress, but because stress keeps us from truly living our lives. How aware are you of the negative effects of […]
Lately I have been helping a lot of people in job transition. After ten, fifteen, or even twenty years with the same company, doing the same role they now find themselves without work. In trying to find a new job and sometimes change careers, they usually go about it the same way. They look at […]
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. – Margaret Thatcher The news about the US Presidential election is filled with anger these days. No matter what side of the election you are on, […]
“I want to move, but I need to have a job in the new city first.” “I want a relationship, and I’ll get one as soon as I lose ten pounds.” “I’ll pursue my passion, as soon as I have enough money in the bank.” Again and again I hear my clients stifle their dreams […]
One of the side effects of my old Type-A ways was the inability to know, ask for, and receive what I wanted. I viewed the world as black and white, right and wrong. Because of this, I assumed there was one right answer for what should be chosen; a right answer which was common knowledge […]
Do you feel sweat on your brow, does your heart quicken and your throat contract, does dread and panic spread across your mind and body – when you realize you don’t have your mobile phone? Then you could have Nomophobia. This mental state, which is not recognized in the current DSM-V, was first labeled by […]
I used to be a bull in a china shop. I was driven. I was pushy. I was rude. I thought that I had to protect myself at all times so I came out swinging. I thought I had to fight for what I wanted. I saw aggression as protection and the way to succeed. […]
Last August I shared about our move down to Mexico and how it fulfilled my husband’s (im)possible dream. He dreamed it, wrote it down, shared it with others, and took a big risk to make it happen. We had to do a lot, risk a lot, to pursue his dream. He gave up a steady […]
Last month I was invited to what was billed as an exclusive, invite only event for women with million dollar businesses who want to increase their businesses ten-fold. No, I don’t have a million dollar business. I attended to represent the non-profit I co-founded, ARTemis, with the hopes these power women would like to support […]