by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 4, 2024 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why The January Blahs? The term “Anti-Resolution” counters the usual pressure to make New Year’s Resolutions that hardly anyone keeps, especially during The January Blahs. It has been found that 92% of resolutions fail, 80% of them fail by mid-February, and 64% of us...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 13, 2023 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Life, Mind Mastery, Success, Well-Being, Work
Why Do People Procrastinate? Just this week a couple of clients were suffering from procrastination. And just this week there was a study reported, on how to stay on task, that I believe can help us to get started on the tasks too. Naturally, I am intrigued by what...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 2, 2023 | Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Love, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What Drives Us? Different people are driven by different things even though we all have the same drivers within us. And I have some examples for you. But first let’s unpack what we even mean by a driver. Harvard Business School professors, Paul Lawrence and Nitin...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 12, 2023 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Well-Being
What are Intrusive Thoughts? I heard that there was a shortage of social workers in Israel, so I asked my dear Israeli friend and colleague how I could help. By the end of this conversation, we had settled on a webinar on Intrusive Thinking, so I began to read. This...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 5, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why Not Anger? I once left a school I otherwise loved because they thought and taught that anger was bad. Their idea, it seemed to me, was that anger is an emotion we should work to get rid of, as if that is even possible, which I do not believe it is. In The...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 29, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Talking
Who Has Negative Thoughts? I am going to guess that everybody has negative thoughts, at some point or another. I’m guessing because studies are fuzzy on the details. There is a widely quoted study, supposedly from the National Science Foundation, suggesting that...
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