by Madelaine Weiss | May 27, 2023 | Happiness, Emotion, Life, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
Are We Happy? How are our minds and our moods? To this question, one new study found that 62.3% of workers, men more than women, are saying they are happier than ever on the job. Great to hear, given how much of people’s lives are devoted to work. But a lot of people...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 20, 2023 | Well-Being, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Love, Stress, Success, Work
Work and Life Quitting More than 47 million people quit their jobs during the great resignation of 2021, and this 23% of the workforce grew by another 38 million in 2022. Since we are talking about work and life, for the latter, let’s look at divorce rates. Although...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 7, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Well-Being
Human Kindness In this study, small acts of kindness happened every 2 minutes, 79% said yes to requests for help and, on the rare occasion that a request for help was denied, there was more often than not an explanation to go with it. To support this finding, this...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Platinum Rule Versus Golden Rule A great talk last week at the Harvard-McLean Institute of Coaching Annual Conference reminded me of The Platinum Rule. The Platinum Rule is superior to The Golden Rule, but harder to implement. As you likely know, The Golden Rule is...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 23, 2023 | Leadership, Fitness, Happiness, Stress, Success
Impact of Leadership Recovery Activity Harvard Business Review reports that leadership development programs cost global organizations about $60 billion per year, with only about 10% of that yielding concrete results. That was in February. Then in April, along comes a...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 16, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
Why Smile? Well, not everyone cares about looking younger and thinner. But even those who don’t may care that appearing younger and thinner affects how they are perceived and, hence, their satisfaction and success in work and life. Studies Show… ChatGPT just...
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 | Well-Being, Decisions, Stress, Success, 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...
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