by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 7, 2022 | Attention, Fitness, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
I just learned a new word—Powerfun. Even though there is a whole chapter on the “Power of Play” in Getting to G.R.E.A.T., I just never heard this word until the other night. What is Powerfun? Ayman Elyasin, VP Sales, BrandMuscle, and Host of Business Podcast, had...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 30, 2022 | Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress
The Smile Debate Strange times we live in—making it all the more important that we preserve and protect our smiles. But, would you believe, people even fight about smiles? That’s right, people have been debating for about 100 years whether something like putting on a...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 22, 2022 | Attention, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Social Energy Levels Now that we can go out again, the question becomes how much do we even want to? We’ve talked already about Post Pandemic Time Warping that can make us not want to do much, even though we can. To refresh, from the earlier post: And then I saw this...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Productivity is the ratio of output over input. The more we get out of what we put in, or the less we put in to get the result out—the more productive we are. How Productive Are We? So how productive are we? Not so much these days. Reuters reported that U.S....
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Mental Health Crisis Ninety percent of Americans believe the U.S. is in a mental health crisis. And if that is you or someone you love, please do get help, and know that we now have a new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline connecting callers directly to trained mental...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 1, 2022 | Happiness, Money, Stress, Success
About the Coffee Not clear if Science Daily reposted an earlier finding on the benefits of coffee because October 1st was International Coffee Day, or if the latest post is a follow-up to the study I posted on back in April. In any case, Science Daily does a nice job,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 27, 2022 | Happiness, Play, Stress, Success, Time, Work
What Free Time? Last time we talked about post pandemic ‘time warping’: “All of a sudden everything went on stop.… We could not be the people we were used to being in the world anymore,” says health psychologist Alison Holman of the University of California, Irvine....
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 17, 2022 | Attention, Leadership, Stress, Success, Time
What Is Going On? Did you know that there is something called “blursday,” referring to a post pandemic time warping associated with higher levels of distress. Just this week, clients were describing experiences that sounded like time warping, more shut down or shut...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 10, 2022 | Attention, Happiness, Leadership, Success
What is Phubbing? Phubbing is paying attention to our phone instead of the people we are with. And, it really does sound like just about everybody is doing it. What’s more interesting, though, is that people tend to think it’s bad when other people do it, not so...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 4, 2022 | Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Stress, Success
September is Self-Improvement Month. Really? Says who? And why? Why isn’t it January? What Makes National Days National Day Calendar is responsible for a lot of these national days, charging somewhere between $2,300 – $4,000 to approve a new day. But the...
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