Happiness - Mind Over Matters

2023 Word of the Year. Here’s Mine. What’s Yours?

by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 10, 2022 | Attention, Decisions, Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Narcissism, Stress, Success

‘Word of the Year’ appears to be overtaking ‘New Year’s Resolution’ as a way to convince ourselves that we are actually doing something—possibly because 80% of NY’s Resolutions fail by the second week in February anyway. And, since 64% of us make the same...

Your Comfort Zone: 2 Reasons to Stay In. 2 Reasons to Get Out. And How?

by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 3, 2022 | Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success

What is Comfort Zone? People are tired. Whether from Covid directly. Or indirectly from what it takes to adjust to this complicated world of ours. Or from some combination of the many factors pressing on each of our lives. And because tired people want to conserve...

Use Your Nose: Unfortunately, 30-50% Adults Don’t When They Breathe.

by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 13, 2022 | Fitness, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success

What’s Up With Breathing? Last week I was asked to help a young man prep for a life shaping interview, by teaching him how to breathe. The young people today are doing such great things for our world, my pleasure, of course. When I asked him to fall still and take...

Powerfun: 1 New Word For Work and Life!

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...

“Adversarial” Study Finds 2 out of 3 Smile Techniques Work

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...

Study Finds 2-3 Cups of Coffee Heart Healthy. But Is It Really the Coffee?

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,...