The first week of the New Year has always been a bit of a challenge for me. I’m psyched up for carrying out the strategic plan I built for my personal and professional life in early December, but my body, mind, and spirit are not quite on board yet! My body is trying to return to normal after a month of indulging in Christmas cookies for lunch and traditional, low-nutrition – but oh, so tasty! …
Exercise is, of course, essential for your health. And if you want to generate high performance results in your life, research shows you should take part in some form of exercise that you enjoy nearly every day. But exercise is not a substitute for meditation. Sure, you may feel similar after both exercising and meditating. Exercise helps close the stress response cycle, it stimulates feel-good hormones such as endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin, and it gives …
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 …
I believe that we human beings are inherently driven to express our true greatness and keep growing. In fact, in the Audible book “Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility” written by Patty McCord, who was the chief talent officer of Netflix and responsible for creating its innovative culture, she agrees with this belief. She shares that their high performance culture was created by offering challenges and problems that need to be solved to …
My husband and I traveled through Vietnam for our honeymoon 10 years ago. One of the hardest parts of our trip was crossing the street in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. Motorcycles and rickshaws and cabs and scooters bustled to and fro in multiple lanes. Yet there were no lane markers and no traffic lights and no cross walks. It was pure chaos to my Western eyes. When it was time to cross the street, we’d …