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Ours is not exactly a society built for mellowness. We idolize the go-getters and ridicule the “slackers.” We celebrate the ones who seem to pack 25 hours’ worth of tasks into a 24 hour day and we judge, silently or not-so-silently, the ones who never seem to meet a deadline. We are the products of a culture built on the premise that you will succeed only through struggle and hard work. And it’s killing us. As a society, we’re more overwhelmed, more stressed, more anxious tha

Nobody’s perfect. Anyone with a hint of self-awareness and honesty will acknowledge that. But often, recognizing our failures helps us to overlook those of others. After all, we usually find it far preferable to put up with a bit of frustration over our friends’, loved ones’, and coworkers’ foibles than to give up entirely the pleasure of having them in our lives. Yet, it seems that in the last two years something has changed. Significantly. All you have to do is watch the n

Here we are, endeavoring to recover from the worst public health crisis in modern history. Trying to regain a financial foothold in the wake of varying economic disasters the pandemic has wrought. Hoping for a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel as lockdowns lift and economies reopen. Unfortunately, this much-awaited recovery has not looked at all like what many of us expected. Instead of an entrepreneurial renaissance, we’re finding ourselves in the throes of the Great R

It’s 3 in the afternoon and you’ve been pounding coffee and energy drinks all day. Your nerves are a live wire. You’re irritable and unfocused and yet, you’re also exhausted. Your body and mind are drained and you seriously doubt if you’re going to make it to the end of the workday upright and awake. Lack of sleep is not just making you feel fatigued. It may also be taking a profoundly dangerous toll on your physical, psychological, social, and professional wellbeing. Luckily

When you hear the phrase “stress weight,” what comes to mind? Chances are, you think of those extra pounds from binge-eating your way through a particularly difficult time in your life. But stress weight is far more than going up a size when life gets especially tough. Stress is, in itself, an invisible weight. It bears down on you regularly over time. We often increase it by trying to carry burdens that are not ours to carry. In the end, it erodes away at us, depleting our l

It’s the New Year and, if you’re like many, you’re ready to make a fresh start. While you might be resolved to exercise, go on a diet, or maybe even launch a new career in 2022, you may be missing out on the most important resolution of all: Ensuring that the relationships in your life are truly serving you well. Unfortunately, we don’t always value and work to improve good relationships or recognize the unhealthy relationships in our lives until they have taken a profound to

Looking to turn a profit this quarter? Hoping to up those revenues in the fiscal year ahead? Then we’ve got a hot tip for you. Throw out the balance sheet. Do we have your attention yet? Good. Because we’re not actually asking you to forget about your cash flow. You’re running a business, after all. What we are asking you to do is shuffle your priorities a bit. Because if you want your company to survive and thrive when the competition for talent is more intense than it has e

You know what it takes to be healthy. Eating cleanly. Keeping hydrated. Getting healthy sleep and regular exercise. Maintaining an emotionally, physically, and spiritually fulfilling work/life balance. It seems simple enough in the abstract. But, in practice, the matter is often far more complicated. The truth is that if you’re looking to implement a healthy lifestyle change, desire is not enough. If it were, then that fitness club membership you purchased for the New Year wo

The pandemic has changed the way many people work and, when working remotely became the norm, it seemed like a wonderful change. However, even for people who love it, the past couple of years have shown that working remotely has far more challenges than anticipated and some who work from home are facing exhaustion and burnout. From Zoom fatigue to rarely disconnecting, or the lack of separation between home and work spaces, there are many aspects of working from home that n

At some point, nearly every single adult has experienced a wonderful, close relationship with someone whom they love to be around. Many have also experienced a highly contentious, hostile, or distant relationship with a person they gradually come to dread being near. Any relationship with a person that you must interact with frequently can impact your wellbeing if you let it go unresolved. While sometimes there are unfortunate situations that you can do nothing about, more of

Many of us are not even aware that it's happening. We simply feel tired, defeated, retracted, and sensitive. It can go on for days where we don't have much energy to even get up in the morning, weighted down by this invisible thing that has taken over the subconscious part of our mind. For some people this is a normal state of being while others around them seem to be much happier. What is keeping us from experiencing more joy in life? People are told that life has its “ups a

How Could I Possibly Be Responsible For This? We always have a choice. We can decide to be at the effect of whatever is happening to us...