by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 1, 2024 | Attention, Decisions, Fitness, Happiness, Stress, Success, Uncategorized
Why Should You Make a New Habit? Here’s why: September is Self-Improvement Month, and making new habits is a great way to improve yourself and your life. Maybe you thought you had ‘til January 1st to upgrade yourself and your life. But the National Calendar says the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 13, 2024 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why all the “Wellness”? August is National Wellness Month. It is also the second month in the prelaunch for “What’s Your Story?” a wellness workbook for kids and adults who care about them. (List for launch announcements and discounts, click here.) But wait…April was...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 7, 2024 | Parenting, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Stress
What is Stress Spiraling? Stress spiraling is when a parent’s stress triggers a child’s stress, which then loops back to the parent, affecting the entire family’s dynamic. By stress, we mean the physical, emotional, or mental tension in response to...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 7, 2024 | Happiness, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Caring: Little Things, Big Impact? If you think that you and your caring are too small to make a difference in this turbulent world, then you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito (African Proverb). People are not always on their best behavior when they are as...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 29, 2024 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What is Grit? Grit is a psychological trait popularized by researcher Angela Duckworth’s bestseller: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. As the title suggests grit, “a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal—is the hallmark of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 1, 2024 | Attention, Life, Stress, Well-Being
What is Stress? One of the biggest mistakes people make is jumping to the conclusion that, because they feel stressed, something bad must be happening. Too much of a good thing can leave people feeling stressed or even just a good thing that is not part of one’s...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 1, 2024 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Why Should We Give Compliments? A compliment is: “an expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration.” Compliments are free, easy to receive and give, and come with many benefits to both receivers and givers. One study, conducted by social psychologist...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 9, 2024 | Happiness, Money, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Does Money Buy Happiness? First, they say it doesn’t. Then they say it does. Then they say it doesn’t… It’s kind of like the research on whether coffee is good for you, yes and no and yes and no… Or like that saying, “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 2, 2024 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Time, Well-Being, Work
Why Do We Love Nature? Some say it’s because landscapes remind us deeply of the lush habitat of the savanna – the favorable environment in which the biggest part of our evolutionary brain development is said to have taken place. There was 2016 research suggesting that...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 21, 2024 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Well-Being
What is Clustering? Brains are into networking just like their humans are. Maybe you’ve heard that neurons that fire together wire together, well so do humans and it’s called “clustering.” According to researchers at Yale and Harvard, their model of how neurons...
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