by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 25, 2022 | Attention, Emotion, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Can We Change? Spoiler Alert on Change: There is a film on Netflix called “The Wonder” about a young girl who wouldn’t eat. Without giving away the whole thing, because her refusal to eat was related to who she believed she was, she also came to believe that, if she...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 27, 2022 | Decisions, Emotion, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Talking
Speaking Truth to Power “Speaking truth to power is to express our opinions frankly and openly to people who have some form of power over us,” this definition from thought leader, David Gurteen. The concept of Speaking Truth to Power goes as least as far back as the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 21, 2022 | Emotion, Happiness, Success, Time
What is Procrastination? Procrastination is “to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.” On average, people spend 2 hours and 25 minutes/day procrastinating, much of it fooling around on the internet, even though 94% say it is adversely...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 22, 2022 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Life, Stress
The Art of Apology When You—Think—You’ve Done Nothing Wrong, I Should Say. Just this week, someone (we’ll call him Dave) asked if we could discuss his apology to a family he believes he infected with Covid on a weekend visit with them at their home. He said, of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 18, 2022 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Success
All it takes is 7 seconds for you to be cooked—into someone else’s first impression of you—and some studies suggest it’s really only a tenth of one second. First impressions are quick and hard to change. Studies show that, as time went on, snap judgments about...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 4, 2022 | Success, Attention, Emotion, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress
Fear is universal, meaning that we all have it, even if some of what scares us might not scare someone else. Common human fears include: open spaces, closed spaces, heights, flying, insects, snakes, storms, needles, dogs—and, yes, fear of other people (“the most...
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