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…
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…
“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…
I Can Do It Myself (?)
Yes, whatever it is, you could do it yourself. “I do it myself ” is the expression of a normally developing two- or three-year-old, but, in some areas, do-it-yourself (DIY) is not always wise for developing adults. Yes, you could…
It’s All In Your Head
Happenings in your life, your behavior, and the behavior of others need an explanation that makes sense to us. Humans are hard-wired to seek an explanation for things and are constantly assembling beliefs about how the world works, the behavior…
The Compliment Habit
“I just can’t think of anything I can compliment them for.” People, who say this, probably deserve a compliment for at least trying to think of something for which to compliment another person. Most of us don’t take that time.…
No Room!?
Does this kind of thing ever cross your mind? What? Another appointment? Another conversation? Another project? Another task? Another social engagement? Another problem to solve? Another call for commitment? No Room! How does a person get to the point of…
What Keeps You from “Thanks Giving?”
It’s the Thanksgiving season in the United States. We’ve not always had a seasonal approach to giving thanks. It’s been practiced, off and on, nationally since 1789 and became a national holiday in 1863 during the dark days of the…
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…
