by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2021 | Decisions, Crisis, 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 | Decisions, Attention, Crisis, 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...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 30, 2021 | Attention, Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress
Cranky? Is It The Heat? So this is a little embarrassing because maybe it was a bit of no brainer all along. Maybe I should have just figured that the reason I felt cranky was because it was hot. Yes, that’s right, according to science writer, Sujata Gupta:...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 16, 2021 | Mind Management, Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Fitness, Mismatch, Stress
Human Intelligence Every once in a while, I read something that knocks my socks off. This time it was Annie Murphy Paul’s piece on Intelligence in the New York Times, “How to Think Outside Your Brain.” If I understood correctly, the rough idea is that the human brain...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 28, 2021 | Crisis, Life, Stress
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty gets hit by lightning bolts 600 times a year, and that the torch sways 5 inches side to side. That doesn’t happen to us. Or does it? How many times a year, or a week even, do we feel like we are getting hit by something, at work...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 17, 2021 | Crisis, Decisions, Stress, Work
Millennial parents are worried about the unhappiness of their kids. Even the kids we might think have it all just waiting for them are suffering in increasing numbers. And this is not new. Rob was about to graduate from college, had gotten accepted to both Harvard and...
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