by Madelaine Weiss | May 15, 2022 | Crisis, Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Mastery, Stress
World Gone Mad? Resilience? Easier said than done? Just when we began to think we were going to finally come out of the darkness of the pandemic into some sun—then came the War on Ukraine. Meanwhile, 32% of Americans are struggling to figure out things like what to...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 14, 2022 | Attention, Crisis, Mind Mastery
Focus of a Fish Lately we’ve been hearing that we have lost the ability to focus—that we have the attention spans of fish, only worse. Goldfish average 9 seconds before they lose concentration. We average 8 seconds before we lose ours. The phone beckons after all,...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 7, 2022 | Crisis, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress
Here’s What Happened Just this week, someone said twice in one exchange, “Enjoy the beautiful day.” Not a one-off; more a pattern of communication for this awkwardly upbeat individual. Toxic Positivity? Considering I had just said that I was feeling heavy...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 28, 2022 | Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress, Work
Heartbroken. That’s how I feel about the Ukrainian crisis. Heartbroken, in awe of the Ukrainians and, when someone here in the U.S. told me he already had his survival kit assembled, I also felt a bit scared. This brings me to something called Locus of Control — for...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2021 | Crisis, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Big Decisions on Steroids What used to be just for mid-lifers is now available to everyone—the chronic, if not crippling, weight of decisions about which way to turn in our lives. The great pause of the pandemic gave us all the time and space to do this. People began...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 13, 2021 | Attention, Crisis, Decisions, Mind Mastery
“Just because It (Job Stress) feels bad doesn’t mean that something bad is happening.” That’s what I heard myself say this week to a client who was considering a professional pivot, as so many are. But even if we didn’t want to change a thing...
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