by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 9, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being
The Inner Critic and Gravity For years, people have been telling me about the negative thoughts in their heads. Just this week, a client and I noticed together that it tends to flare up every time she is about to take a leap forward in her life, with something like:...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 1, 2023 | Decisions, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
My Kids Introduced Me to ChatGPT. For anyone who may not know by now, ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by AI research company OpenAI, and released in November 2022. If I said I couldn’t wait to try it, that would not be the whole truth because...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 27, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Why Does Your Ego Care What Other People Think? Easy. Let’s begin with an answer to this question from an earlier post: Well, for one thing, it is about our very survival! That’s why we care. Back in the day, millions of years ago when the modern human brain was...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Hedonic Treadmill Too many people think things like money, career success, romantic relationships… are the key to their happiness. I hear it a lot in the early days of my work with a client. Typically, they have been trying as hard as they can to make these things...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 11, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Everything You Think is Wrong Day is March 15th. The idea is that, because any decision we make on that day will be wrong, we shouldn’t make any decisions at all on that day. Good luck with that. Even getting out of bed in the morning is a decision we make, whether we...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 5, 2023 | Decisions, Leadership, Stress, Success, Well-Being
Here below is an article I wrote that was just published by CEOWORLD magazine for their leadership audience. I am sharing it here because I believe it applies to us all, and am hoping you will find something in the article useful to you and yours. And, to check out...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 25, 2023 | Decisions, Leadership, Stress, Success, Time
The Problem with Time February was Time Management Month, and just this week I noticed with a client that the problem with time was more a problem with anxiety than time. And it was not even that something bad had happened to cause all the anxiety that was making...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 19, 2023 | Leadership, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
“Other people” can be work—at least in part why so many people have shifted solo in both career and relationships. Yes, that’s right, studies show that more people are flying single by choice than ever before. And speaking of relationships, my new relationship with...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 6, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Love, Stress, Success, Uncategorized
What is Social Comparison? A colleague commented on my recent Procrastination post that Procrastination is not his problem, but Social Comparison is. I took this as a call to write something on Social Comparison—and also as an opportunity to play with ChatGPT. I know,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 28, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership
Decision v Struggle People often ask me how they are supposed to know what is the right decision when they feel like they ‘can’t decide’. The error is in the question, as if there is a ‘right decision’ out there somewhere and they just have to figure out what that is....
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