When you analyze your personal life for possible improvements, you can follow the 80/20 principle. The key is to concentrate on the areas or activities, which will lead to your happiness. So if you improve on or add more positive activities, you can bring about significant changes to your life. …
While Kaizen is known as a management philosophy, it’s actually much more than that. First you have to see that it isn’t a vague notion about improving yourself, but rather a very sophisticated and nuanced way to look at life. For example, let’s look at time management. Managing your time…
What we feed our bodies doesn’t stop with our nutritional habits, it actually extends even further into what we feed our minds. This week let’s focus on detoxing our brains. Taking a few minutes to unplug. I am not just referring to electronics, but to any thing that is…
Summer is finally here! The sun is out, the temperature has risen and chances are your schedule has picked up. Whether its family gatherings, plans with friends, vacations planned, wedding season or holiday parties and celebrations, it can sometimes be tough and stressful to balance your time. I’m sure we…
People often assume that conflict is always negative. This is not true! People are inherently different, and conflict simply happens when those differences come to light. Viewing conflict in this way can help us maximize the possible positive outcomes of the problem at hand. Equipped with a conflict resolution process,…
2017 is quickly approaching, 11 days to be exact. Many look at the new year as a fresh start, a new beginning, a way to put the past in the past and a time to start a “new you”. For some, its losing those extra pounds, its starting a new…
Now that we’ve established that anger is a natural, unavoidable, and instinctual reaction let’s look at how we can respond to anger appropriately. In this blog, will discuss the dos and don’ts in responding to anger. DO acknowledge that you are angry. It is important that you know how to…
What are you feeling? Is this anger? Is this depression? Is this a normal? Anger is a very normal emotion, that can and does present itself in many ways. Understanding the different phases of anger is an important step in dealing with anger in a productive and healthy way. Illustrated below are…
Catastrophic events like 9/11 and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina can knock us to our knees. But personal adversities can pack an equally powerful punch. Our spouse is diagnosed with cancer, our son has a mental breakdown, we lose our home. Often these events seem to come out of nowhere…
Feeling Overwhelmed? Look in any thesaurus, and the synonyms for overwhelm are pretty awful: overpower, subdue, oppress, quash, engulf, swallow, submerge, bury, suffocate. To anyone who’s experienced overwhelm, and that’s plenty of us, those words may be all too familiar. Whether the overwhelm is sudden or cumulative, chronic or acute,…
