“You’re happier and nicer to me when we have sex,” I said to my husband this morning over coffee, a few minutes before we got our boys up for school. “What?!” he asked, starting to get defensive. “It’s not an accusation,” I replied neutrally. “It’s just an observation.” His energy softened. “Your love language is physical touch, then words of affirmation,” I said. “When there’s less sex going on between us, you and I are …
Some perspective I shared on social media this week that’s important for all of us to remember, especially now, because I love ya: STOP GIVING YOUR POWER AWAY: Remember that we (thankfully) live in a democratic nation with checks and balances. The president’s power is an illusion. No one person has full control over our country or you. If you’re waiting for Trump or Biden or anyone else to fly in and save you, you …
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 …
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 …