by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 28, 2022 | Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress, Work
Heartbroken. That’s how I feel about the Ukrainian crisis. Heartbroken, in awe of the Ukrainians and, when someone here in the U.S. told me he already had his survival kit assembled, I also felt a bit scared. This brings me to something called Locus of Control — for...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 21, 2022 | Leadership, Attention, Decisions, Stress, Talking, Time, Work
The Problem with Meetings It’s happening. People are going back to the office. Probably not 5 days per week. Possibly not that ever again. One young professional told me that it will be 2 days per week in-person, mostly for meetings. Then he added that people would be...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 14, 2022 | Stress, Love, Mind Mastery, Success, Work
What is St. Valentine’s Day? Is this Love? This adorable dog doesn’t understand, and wants to know why this is happening. I wondered myself how St. Valentine’s Day, sweet as it can be, came to be such a thing. So, I looked it up. First, I found there is no...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 7, 2022 | Play, Happiness, Mind Mastery
Are You Playing Wordle? Are you one of the 2.5 million people playing this new word game, Wordle? Wordle is an online 5-letter word game invented by Josh Wardle (Wardle, Wordle, good one). The story is that Josh made up the game during the pandemic because he knew his...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 31, 2022 | Decisions, Fitness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success
Benefits of Minimal Exercise Wow, only 10 minutes of mild exercise and I’m already smarter than I was 10 minutes ago? Makes you wonder, doesn’t it, why anybody would not just do it. Only, a lot of people just don’t. In fact, according to HealthyPeople.Gov 2020: “More...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 24, 2022 | Attention, Emotion, Success
What is Neuroticism? Proud to report that I first began to study personality with my honors thesis advisor, Paul T. Costa, Ph.D, one of the researchers who provided us with the “Big Five” model of personality so widely used today. The 5 Traits are: extraversion (also...
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 | Happiness, Attention, 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...
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