by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fast versus Slow? To continue the conversation on Decision Making…this study I found the other day seemed to be suggesting that we feel better after we decide if we put a lot in on the front end before we decide. This concerned me because I had been making a...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
What Now? For sure, I have been posting on ‘Decision Making’ a lot lately. Somehow I ‘decided’ that if it’s true we are making 35,000 decisions every day—yikes—they better be good! After all, what is my book (“Getting to G.R.E.A.T.: 5-Step Strategy for Work and Life”)...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 3, 2022 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Love, Mind Mastery, Success, Work
‘New Year, New You’? Sounds good only maybe you said that before and, like the majority of people, well you know: 92% of resolutions fail, 80% of them failing by mid-February, and you may be making the same ones over and over again. Why Make Resolutions? Why Set...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 30, 2021 | Attention, Happiness, Love, Mind Mastery, Success
Warmest wishes to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous 2022. As for resolutions, consider whether to set one or to set a word of intent instead. I’m doing the latter, and just fyi my word for 2022 is LOVE. Love, Madelaine P.S. There is also the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 20, 2021 | Decisions, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Decisions Require Emotions If you are one the many who think that decision-making should not be emotional, think again. Beginning with the Psych 101 study of Phineas Gage’s brain, study after study has since shown that—injury to the part of the brain that integrates...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 13, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership
A Proverb You Know He who hesitates is lost. You know that proverb, but did you know that He was actually a She, originating in a play by Joseph Addison in 1713. You can decide for yourself how the female decider in this proverb morphed male over time. But that would...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Food Friending Food is everywhere. It’s that time of year. So, I am updating an earlier post on Food Friending for your use. Who among us hasn’t heard that food is love and eating together is good for us…mind, body, and soul So, for example, students in families who...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2021 | Crisis, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Big Decisions on Steroids What used to be just for mid-lifers is now available to everyone—the chronic, if not crippling, weight of decisions about which way to turn in our lives. The great pause of the pandemic gave us all the time and space to do this. People began...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 20, 2021 | Attention, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Too Much Information Attention is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves and each other. But, of course, we cannot pay attention to ourselves and everyone else in the world all at the same time. In fact, science says that, since our “information speed...
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