The suspicion that you might be off track career-wise can be difficult to ignore. As a career coach, I frequently speak to individuals about their struggles in the workplace. The causes of their unhappiness can be any number of things: conflicting personalities, poor communication, incompatible corporate culture, and so on. In many cases, however, the issue comes down to poor…
We think of kindness as something we do for others. But Rick Hanson says kindness is a two-way street
Changing the way you think about things, allows you to flow with life more comfortably
It’s a New Year! Make a resolution to exercise your Kindness Muscle in 2015. Here are 15 ideas to get you started.
We all know the expression “to grow old gracefully.” I have been thinking a lot about why we would need “grace” to accept something that is so natural. What is it in us that rebels against the aging process or, at the very least, worries about it? When I was in my 20s, I had already started worrying about…
These simple daily practices can alter the neural pathways in your brain and help you turn your thinking around
Every year many of us engage in a ritual that leads to failure and disappointment: creating and breaking New Year’s resolutions. In December we decide, say, that we want to lose weight, declutter our homes, make better choices in relationships, or practice meditation or yoga regularly. And several weeks after January 1st, we realize that we have failed and…
End-of-the-year magazines, web sites and television shows always amuse me with their features about New Year resolutions. Full of strategies for how-to, when-to and ought-to, the crescendo gets as loud as Times Square on December 31st. Then there’s a short silence, followed by all of the same voices reminding you that over 88% of all New Year resolutions fail by…
Symbolically, the first 12 days of the year set the intention for the remaining 11 months. Numerically, the coming year, 2015, adds up to 8, the number that represents success. So get off to a good start and let 2015 be your best year ever! The key is to set clear intentions and prime yourself for wild success. Try the…
