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...
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 | 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...
Recent Comments