A Great Night’s Sleep?
How would you like to be really healthy, on top of your productivity game, and have less brain fog? Diet and exercise are important, but sleep is even more important and serves as a foundation upon which diet and exercise…
Telling or Teaching, Listening or Learning: Leading people who solve their own problems
We do a lot of telling and directing with children. Right? That’s because they don’t yet have the life experiences or the cognitive ability to figure some things out. They may look at the stove, feel the heat from a…
Masterful Delegation: Expanding Your Capacity, Improving Productivity, and Saving Your Health
If you delegate that task away, what will keep you busy? Will you be giving away things you like to do? Will others do an excellent job with the delegated task? Will others think you’re lazy or irresponsible? Click the…
When People Make You “Crazy”
If we are all honest, people do make us “crazy” (read “stressed out”). And, if we are emotionally intelligent, we know that we make other people “crazy,” too. Here are some tips (tips of the iceberg, that is) on what…
To Do or Not To Do?
You know that problem you've had recently or the one you are facing right now? I'm talking about problems bigger than restaurant choice or which clothes to wear for the day. What's your usual approach to solving those bigger problems?…
Are You Getting the Signal?
When the pressure of schedule, deadlines, people, and other life demands is on, stress rises. You go into (or live in) the same life-preserving fight-flight-freeze response that our cave-dwelling ancestors did when encountering a saber tooth tiger or T-Rex. That…
“AHA!” Moments from Put Stress to Work
I love it when people experience "aha!" moments through my coaching and presentations. When the lightbulbs of insight and awareness come on, people are helped and it's a joy-filled moment for me (and them). Since the release of Put Stress to…
How to Leave Your Work at Work
Ever have a hard time changing channels from thinking about work to focus on leisure and family? Changing the focus of your attention from work to other important things can be challenging, especially when you own your business or you…
My Secret to a Satisfying Holiday Season (it’s not what you think)
The Christmas season is a time of expectation. It's built on the foundational expectation of the coming of Christ as a baby born of the virgin Mary. This sometimes gets lost in unreasonably high social, emotional, and material expectations and…
Prime Time for Stress
When your expectations are high, you push your energy and schedule to its limits, and you revisit difficult relationships, you are set up for stress. In the US, the next 8 weeks is the holiday season, a time when these…
