Feb
11
2023
A few years ago, I often felt like a zombie after a demanding workday. My fatigue got worse as the week progressed, and by weekend, I was little better than brain-dead. I didn't have much energy for anything. I...
Aug
10
2018
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part blog to help you reduce stress in your life. You can read the previous parts before this one, or read Part 4 first - there is no special order, just...
Jul
27
2018
This is Part 3 of a 4-part blog to help you reduce stress in your life. You can read the previous parts before this one, or read Part 3 first - there is no special order, just go with...
Jan
05
2018
Energy or stress? It’s mid-afternoon, and you’re falling behind, unable to focus on the upcoming deadline. What’s wrong with you, you ask yourself, as you drain the last of your third coffee of the past two hours... You can’t...
Jun
22
2017
Serial-Tasking, Not Multi-Tasking, Makes You 50% More Productive
We’ve come to think of multi-tasking as the miracle thing that allows us to do more in less time, but the truth is, multi-tasking makes you 50% slower than focused tasking. And...
Mar
12
2016
Every day, you generate stress and take in stress from your environment. How about getting rid of it?
Stress doesn't have to be dramatic and sudden. I'd guess that most of your stress comes from the accumulation of small things...
Feb
22
2015
Guilt is such a mixed up, overrated loss of life. I’m not referring here to the regret for doing something really wrong (causing harm to you or others), but to the inability to enjoy the present moment free and unencumbered.
You feel guilty...
Feb
09
2015
I used to be a world-class multi-tasker. I could make phone calls, chop vegetables, feed the dog, and get dressed, all the while checking my emails. I thought that multi-tasking allowed me to do more in less time. Not so.
I was...
Jan
27
2015
Second-hand stress is the kind of stress that doesn’t belong to your life, but that you get from being ‘contaminated’ by a stressful person, event or situation. Turn on the TV, and there it is, as you watch the news...
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