by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 11, 2026 | Attention, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Success
What Is Phubbing? Phubbing — short for phone snubbing — happens when someone shifts attention to their phone when they are with other people. It might be answering a call, replying to a message, scheduling something quickly, or simply keeping the device visible and...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 10, 2026 | Crisis, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being
What Happened? The other night I watched a strong and wise man tear up in the middle of his remarks. And I completely fell apart. It felt like something that had been building for a long time, with everything going on in the world — the noise, the uncertainty, the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 18, 2026 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Kindness As Kind. Kindness As Mean? National Random Acts of Kindness Day is February 17th. A couple of weeks ago in January, we had that great big snowstorm. The pre-storm line at Trader Joe’s was a maze. I could see the end of it, by the cash register, but not the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 11, 2026 | Emotion, Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Living well is the best revenge, meaning what? There’s a well-known Hebrew saying: Living well is the best revenge. It’s often misunderstood, as if thriving were meant to provoke or diminish others. It isn’t. It’s moral. It’s strong. And in a world where envy,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sharing light and love during tender times. May the coming year bring comfort, clarity, and joy to you and all those you hold dear. 🧡
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 19, 2025 | Decisions, Attention, Emotion, Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Sleeping, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
How Heavy Is It? Maybe you’ve heard this story. It’s so good. Bears repeating. Here goes… A professor once held up a glass of water and asked the class that very question. “Eight ounces?” someone guessed. “Maybe twelve?” another said. The teacher smiled and replied,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 24, 2025 | Leadership, Mind Mastery, Talking, Well-Being
To Speak or Not to Speak? That was the question raised by a lovely, sophisticated physician at a brunch I attended recently. A medical student she was otherwise quite fond of had said something racist to her, to which she said nothing. Years later, she still wondered...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 29, 2025 | Emotion, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Talking
Why it’s Not Always Rude—Especially if Someone’s Wired for Depth. The other day, I interrupted someone mid-sentence. She was talking—I can’t remember what it was about—when we walked right past a jazz club in our neighborhood that I’d noticed many times but never...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 27, 2025 | Decisions, Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Uncategorized
Why Should You Make a New Habit? This post refreshes and updates one I shared last year for Self-Improvement Month, with the latest market numbers and insights for 2025. Now more than ever, with everything going on in the world — this is the perfect time to upgrade...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 28, 2025 | Crisis, Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Mastery, Stress, Talking, Well-Being
What do you do when the people you love most seem blind to what matters most to you? I have written before on the intensifying differences in our lives today. And I write again because I find one of the hardest emotional challenges in life—when we find ourselves on...
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