by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 13, 2020 | Attention, Crisis, Decisions, Mind Management
What Gets Me. I’m pretty good with uncertainty so that’s not what gets me. I’m guessing that my 2004 flesh eating disease, with 10 trips to the OR, never knowing if I’d be coming out with 1 or 2 arms, or coming out at all, cured me of that....
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 6, 2020 | Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Management, Work
What I Did for Love? I nagged my clients, my kids—and anyone else who would let me—to please look at the update of a blockbuster classic, now titled The New One Minute Manager. It’s only about 100 little pages, with lots of white space, so you can...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 30, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management, Mismatch, Spending
Maybe you wish social status wasn’t a thing. But it is. Always was and, near as I can tell, always could be because humans are so wired for it. Humans are wired to strive for status—and to have a keen eye for who does and doesn’t have it—because back in the day when...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 23, 2020 | Emotion, Fitness, Mind Management
Some people are not letting in what would make them happy right now. It may not feel right to be happy right now, when so many are suffering. If this applies, please know that your happiness is not about you, well not just about you anyway. The truth is that whatever...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 16, 2020 | Fitness, Life, Mind Management, Sleeping
Do you wake up every morning bouncing with energy and a smile, ready to take on the world? Not so much. That’s okay. You are not alone. Especially now, I am one of the lucky ones in the waking and sleeping department, but lots of other people are reporting waking up...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 9, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management
The data on data is mind blowing. Forbes reported: Every Second there are 40,000 google searches (3.5 billion per day), and that’s only google.Every Minute we send 16 million texts, 156 million emails, and take 990,000 tinder swipes.Every...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 2, 2020 | Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management
Nothing woo-woo here. “Militant Optimism” is not the same thing as ‘everything will be alright’. It is also not the same thing as expecting the worst all the time. By the way, which do you think is better for your health and longevity? The Upper? Or the Downer? ...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 28, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Mind Management
Uncertainty is supposed to hurt: not too much, not too little, but just right. Some of us tolerate uncertainty better than others and, for those who can and do, the pain of uncertainty can be a plus. Humans Don’t Like Uncertainty Studies show that we...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 19, 2020 | Attention, Emotion, Mind Management, Sleeping
Look at this Great Quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller Brain Gardening Exactly!!! Only I like to think about it as a garden. Let’s...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 12, 2020 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management
Both Time and Money began as figments of the human imagination. We created them both to help us to survive and to thrive. Forgetting this, we have practically deified both, such that both Time and Money are pretty much in charge of us instead of the other way...
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