by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 19, 2020 | Attention, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Stress
‘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 Set Goals? So why even bother...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 12, 2020 | Attention, Eating, Fitness, Mind Mastery
Just because some thought in the head says “I want to eat” after you already did—doesn’t mean you have to do what it says. Who is The Decider? You are an adult now. Of course you take suggestions under consideration, but then you are, or should be, the decider of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 5, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Fitness, Mind Mastery
A lot of people just want to get this weird year over with, and then they’ll make their New Year New You resolutions. Except the resolutions aren’t even new for a lot of people because about 80% of them failed by mid-February, so here we go again. Same 5 pounds....
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Mind Mastery, Talking
How do people feel guilty right now? Let us count the ways. I get two: 1) Feeling bad about feeling bad and 2) Feeling bad about feeling good. Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad A lot of people are feeling bad about feeling bad, because there is always someone who has it...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 21, 2020 | Life, Love, Mind Mastery, Narcissism, Work
Anybody remember bumper cars? They remind me of us, a bunch of egos colliding all over the place, sometimes just for the fun of it, sometimes not. What is that? From Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman: “We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 14, 2020 | Attention, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Narcissism
People are getting on each other’s nerves. Not everyone of course. But this pandemic has put a lot of people too close together and a lot of other people too far apart. And it’s making a lot people on either end…well, cranky. The crankiness can really get in the way...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 7, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Work
If you are thinking that being micromanaged (aka nagged) is not good for your health, you would be right. Whether it’s work or home, if it’s bad enough, one natural response could be to look for the door. And that is actually happening for a lot of people right now....
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 31, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Management
Working the Brain So the Brain Works for You ~ Struggling comes from what we call the suffering state. We have compassion for our suffering state but do not want that part of us in charge of the major decisions and direction of our lives. So unless it’s...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 24, 2020 | Attention, Mind Management, Play, Work
Epistemic Hunger Probably because I asked too many questions, a professor once told me I had epistemic hunger. If you don’t know what that means, look it up. That’s what people with epistemic hunger do. We, the hungry, look everything up. Knowledge for the sake of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 17, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management, Mismatch
High Stress Situation Not even counting all of the other pandemic stress, we have this unbelievably testy election coming up. A lot of people are really cranky with anyone who sees anything different from what they see and believe themselves. How did we get so...
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