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....
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 19, 2023 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Stress, Success
CNN Reports… Procrastination hurts—not just the accomplishment of personal and career goals—but in mental health as well. CNN reported on the problems with procrastination just this past week, and I wrote on this myself in August, which I will repost here below....
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 14, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Life, Love, Stress
High-Work-Stress Impact on Relationships “Work stress is the most common cause of relationship unhappiness, with 35% of partners reporting it as their top couples issue…” There you have it, and therefore what? My high-work-stress client tells me he is doing the bare...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 9, 2023 | Mind Mastery, Stress, Time, Work
Getting Stuff Done One Touch Method, Huh? Well, this week a colleague posted a question on Linkedin about productivity strategies. I said that I try to knock off as much of the simpler stuff as I can, as soon as I can, because then I feel free and clear for the more...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 3, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why January Blahs? Did you say more yesses than usual over the holiday season to people wanting to connect with you professionally, or otherwise too? It just started rolling off my heart, “Sure, how about after the first of the year.” And now that we are getting...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 27, 2022 | Happiness, Life, Love, Mind Mastery, Success
This quote is one of my favorites. Hope it helps you to kick off your new year too. So much, too much, energy goes into trying to get rid of everything and everybody we don’t want for our lives—when all we really have to do is bring on everything and everyone we...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 19, 2022 | Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success
Speaking of picking a word for the year, how about VILPA!!! What is VILPA? Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity. It doesn’t cost time. And it doesn’t cost money. That’s right, VILPA doesn’t require time to work out. No club membership nor equipment...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 10, 2022 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Narcissism, Stress, Success
‘Word of the Year’ appears to be overtaking ‘New Year’s Resolution’ as a way to convince ourselves that we are actually doing something—possibly because 80% of NY’s Resolutions fail by the second week in February anyway. And, since 64% of us make the same...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 3, 2022 | Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
What is Comfort Zone? People are tired. Whether from Covid directly. Or indirectly from what it takes to adjust to this complicated world of ours. Or from some combination of the many factors pressing on each of our lives. And because tired people want to conserve...
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