by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 18, 2023 | Stress, Success, Talking, Time, Well-Being, Work
What’s Wrong with Meetings? I actually love virtual meetings just as much as in-person meetings. Okay, maybe I love them more just because of how incredibly convenient they are. Other people say they are tired of virtual. And, that could be because virtual...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 12, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being
What are Intrusive Thoughts? I heard that there was a shortage of social workers in Israel, so I asked my dear Israeli friend and colleague how I could help. By the end of this conversation, we had settled on a webinar on Intrusive Thinking, so I began to read. This...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 5, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why Not Anger? I once left a school I otherwise loved because they thought and taught that anger was bad. Their idea, it seemed to me, was that anger is an emotion we should work to get rid of, as if that is even possible, which I do not believe it is. In The...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 28, 2023 | Emotion, Leadership, Life, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What is a Promise? I just made a promise not to say anything else about something I have already said enough about, for now anyway. 😉 First and foremost, this is a promise I made to myself. I believe all promises are, first and foremost, promises to oneself to keep...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 21, 2023 | Emotion, Mind Mastery, Play, Sleeping, Stress, Success, Uncategorized
What is a Dream? Is anyone else having a lot of dreams lately? I am, mostly about trying to help people who are not even in my life anymore. It is easy to see why, in these times, I might be wishing I could help people I cannot reach, but how are dreams about it...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 14, 2023 | Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being, Work
What To Say in Terribly Tender Times? The past week has been so hard for so many that I could not imagine posting any of the usual on what science can tell us about how to live more satisfying and successful lives. Who cares, I thought, what could possibly seem...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
What is the #1 Cause of Death? Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in America, but then maybe you already knew that. Axios posted the graphic below, also reporting increases in both heart disease and cancer from 2021 to 2022, and an alarming quadrupling of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 29, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Talking
Who Has Negative Thoughts? I am going to guess that everybody has negative thoughts, at some point or another. I’m guessing because studies are fuzzy on the details. There is a widely quoted study, supposedly from the National Science Foundation, suggesting that...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 24, 2023 | Fitness, Happiness, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What’s Great About Walking? Agency, among other things. Humans love agency. So many clients use the word. Merriam-Webster defines it as “the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power.” A new study tells us that babies birth their agency very early...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 17, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Uncategorized, Well-Being, Work
What Can Be Wrong with Being Nice? Nothing is wrong with being nice unless we are too nice, and then there really can be problems. Last week, we addressed how normal (and toxic) rudeness has become. But if rudeness is a lack of consideration for other people and...
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