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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
