By Laura Crandall According to The Internet, it’s time to begin planning and making resolutions for the new year.* Social media posts and end-of-year articles are now directing our attention toward all the things we should start thinking about to maximize the next 12 months: goals for our businesses, ways to get ahead despite still …
By Kelechi Udoagwu “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” – Seneca We see it all the time: the mum screaming in road rage, the man who gets in a fight because someone cut in front of him in a line. Usually, we are the calm ones watching from a distance, at least I am, …
By Lee Ruggles Intuition, as defined by Psychology Today, is a form of knowledge that appears in consciousness without obvious deliberation. It is not magical but rather a faculty in which hunches are generated by the unconscious mind rapidly sifting through past experience and cumulative knowledge. It can also be defined as a feeling, an …
By Elly Mullins One morning I woke up and decided I wanted to run a marathon. This was not a latent idea that had been swirling around my brain, though I was a regular runner living in a runner’s city. But Boston had just experienced an attack during the marathon, and I felt moved by …
By Toufic Hakim, PhD What we can do and learn when we’re in a state of discord and crisis? We’ve all heard the quote by Martin Luther King Jr. suggesting that how we respond to adversity is a manifestation of our true character. In today’s reality, this notion could not be more pertinent. “Our ultimate …
By Jaime Hollander Yes, you’re working and you’re home, but context is everything Yesterday, two different friends in two different cities had the same insight: “You aren’t working from home. You’re at home, during a crisis, trying to work.” It’s absolutely true—but, at the same time, a tricky balance to strike. I need to produce. …
By Lee Ruggles More time alone, more time to connect with yourself and others For many of us—especially the retired set—the current isolation/quarantine situation isn’t that much different than our BV (“Before Virus”) status. Hopping into the car to pick up something we forgot on our last shopping trip, checking out the farmers’ markets, roaming …
Criticism is not a sign of failure or an insult, it’s a gift I’ll just say it: failure and criticism stink. Hearing something critical can be hard and uncomfortable, even if you’re great at taking constructive feedback. No matter how many times you encounter and navigate these forces, it’s not easy to admit that you …
By Nancy Hauswald The world moves fast. Mail moves slow. And that’s a good thing, especially now. As I write, life as we know it is changing at a dizzying, mind-numbing pace. Our daily routines have been upended. So far, though, there’s one piece of our lives here in the U.S. that hasn’t been affected …
Yup, it’s possible. Listen to the news for five minutes these days and it feels about as comfortable as getting a root canal. People are divided. Politics are messier than ever. There’s intensifying chatter about AI robots becoming sentient beings (Yikes!). Simple interactions have the tendency to go from debates to vitriolic insults in three …