by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 10, 2024 | Attention, Emotion, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Uncategorized
What is Fear? Here’s one definition: “Fear is the anticipation or belief that something is dangerous, threatening or likely to cause pain.” Fear is universal, meaning we all have it, even if some of what scares us might not scare someone else. Common human fears...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 13, 2024 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Why all the “Wellness”? August is National Wellness Month. It is also the second month in the prelaunch for “What’s Your Story?” a wellness workbook for kids and adults who care about them. (List for launch announcements and discounts, click here.) But wait…April was...
by Madelaine Weiss | Apr 29, 2024 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being, Work
What is Grit? Grit is a psychological trait popularized by researcher Angela Duckworth’s bestseller: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. As the title suggests grit, “a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal—is the hallmark of...
by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 2, 2024 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success, Time, Well-Being, Work
Why Do We Love Nature? Some say it’s because landscapes remind us deeply of the lush habitat of the savanna – the favorable environment in which the biggest part of our evolutionary brain development is said to have taken place. There was 2016 research suggesting that...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 13, 2024 | Crisis, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success, Well-Being
What Does Material Global Crisis Mean? Today someone told me that he thought he needed to talk with someone because the state of our world was making it hard for him to sleep. The ‘idiocy’ of people who didn’t get it the way he did wasn’t helping either. Well, of...
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...
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