You know that fried feeling in your brain at the end of a busy day? That mentally exhausted, hard-to-focus, hard-to-transition-out-of-work-into-your-evening-roles feeling? That feeling like you’ve been smoking weed all day or just woke up from a first-night-of-vacation hangover? That feeling is from multitasking. Multitasking, or the constant switching from one task to the other, lowers your IQ by 10 points! (Comparatively, actually toking ganja lowers your IQ by only 5 points!) So, as the University …
Last night my 6-year-old son Mav took a scissors and cut a hole in my 4 year-old son Kyen’s outdoor lizard cage that housed a new pet lizard he had caught earlier that day and was very proud of. When I saw what Mav had done, I thought his actions were disrespectful and mean. He had intentionally ruined his brother’s cage. Jumping to one of the reactions we parents choose most often, I told him …
“What gets measured gets managed.” I heard this quote often in my corporate career. It can be applied to all areas of your life — even time. It aligns with the universal wisdom that the first step to change is awareness. So if you want to make better choices about how you use your time, you must bring clear awareness to it by measuring it. Having read hundreds of time management, productivity, and high performance …
Two weeks ago, I hit quarantine rock bottom. Tweezing out the gravel in my stinging wounds, I assessed how I had gotten here, and how I could get back up again. Overnight I had become a stay-at-home mom with the closing of kindergarten and our decision to keep our youngest home from day care/preschool. I continued serving my current contracted coaching clients, but put all other business projects on hold to free up time to …
Last month I completed my certification as a Conscious Parenting Method Coach from Dr. Shefali Tsabury. Oprah has endorsed her work as revolutionary and life changing… Based on my intensive 6-month training with her, I whole-heartedly agree! Dr. Shefali’s worldview and Conscious Parenting Method is very much in line with the Mindful Balanced Life Method I created and coach my client’s through. So I was eager for a deeper level of learning from her, specifically …