Don’t Be Mistaken About Stress — Use It To Aim And Fire Not Shoot Yourself In...
For type A’s, stress is the fuel in the engine; for entrepreneurs, it’s our bread and butter. Anyone who has felt the thrill of envisioning the impossible or defied all odds to deliver on a commitment...
View ArticleHelp Millennials Manage The Stress of Work and Life
Our Millennials seem very stressed these days. A few years ago they seemed so very balanced, so shiny, so calm and un-harassed at work. Well, no more. According to the latest Stress in America report...
View ArticleBinders Full Of Women Will Tell You: Work Life Balance Isn’t Merely A Women’s...
Before Mitt Romney’s claims about the women in his Governor’s administration having flexible hours get eclipsed by ships and bayonets and horses, let’s credit him for elevating the conversation about...
View Article5 Questions to ‘Self-Check’ for Team Burn Out
In a recent New York Times article, Ann Carrins posited the need for a regular mental health checkup citing the growing number of resources available for people to ‘self-check’ their symptoms for...
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This Holiday Season, Stress is the New Fat
This Holiday Season Stress is the New Fat Is it me or is stress on everyone’s lips this holiday season? All of the major health and lifestyle sites are offering tips to beat holiday stress. What...
View ArticleYour Most Productive Resolution 2013: Embrace Uncertainty
I was intending to write about the impact we all suffer from the on-going stress that the series of fiscal cliffs—this one the debt ceiling—are causing, but I think the more serious issue is the...
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The Thrill of the Cliff
I mentioned last week that I intended to write about the fiscal cliff, and with the inauguration past us, I am certain we’ll be hearing more now. As an entrepreneur I feel like I’m always facing...
View ArticleHow Successful Are You? Answer: How Resilient Are You?
Frankly, I think Resilience as a life skill is highly underappreciated so kudos to Nancy Koehn for her attention to Lincoln’s resilience as having served him and our nation well in her article, The...
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Is Healthcare the Next Fiscal Cliff?
Health (Photo credit: Tax Credits) While I am frequently engaged and often fascinated by the current dialogue around health, economy, and technology this recent comment, made at CES2103 Digital Health...
View ArticleChange Your Thinking, Lower Your Stress
The research is in: Some of us are hardwired to react badly to stress while others seem to sail through it far more smoothly. According to the recent piece in the Wall Street Journal (“Are You...
View ArticleGive Yourself A Break: Why Doing Less is the Smartest Thing You Can Do
Entrepreneurs work ruthlessly—by choice. Even I, as someone dedicated to health and wellness for decades, have broken the balance rule and worked straight through the night, through weekends, through...
View Article5 Work-from-Home Myths (Or, Why I Applaud Marissa Mayer)
Imagine that you’re a CEO of a bloated company with an under-performing workforce. You’re faced with achieving high growth, better earnings and killer product in a very short time. Your competitors...
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The Real Reason Women Aren’t Leaning In
Last weekend in the midst of reading the buzz about Sheryl Sandberg’s much-lauded Lean In, I caught Chris Anderson’s SXSW interview with Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors. When asked about work-life...
View ArticleFor Work-Life Happiness: Stop Balancing, Start Leaning In
Let’s put aside all the chatter about Sheryl Sandberg‘s Lean In, including the obligatory mentions of the obvious differences in circumstance between its well-meaning author and most of the working...
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Don’t Stress About Money: 5 Money Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
(Photo credit: Kai Hendry) This is the start of National Stress Awareness month – so perhaps it’s fitting to kick it off by taking a look at our greatest source of stress, which for most people today...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Focus Razor Sharp
There’s a woman I know, a writer and consultant, who says she’s more stressed out by what she’s not doing than what she is doing. When she’s in the flow of work, she’s consumed by it, productive,...
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4 Reasons To Turn Off Your Phone
We’re consuming about three times the amount of information today that we did in 1960, according to researchers at University of California, San Diego. But too much time with devices takes its toll....
View ArticleYour #1 Remedy To Stress Less
Say you’ve had a busy and stressful workweek. Your days are packed with calls and appointments and you still have to carve out time to prep for an important presentation only two days from now. You’re...
View Article3-Step Plan To Unplug Your Vacation And Increase Your Productivity
Here’s my 3-step recommendation to improve your performance as an entrepreneur: Embargo your mail when you head for vacation, relax and restore, while relying on your team to keep business moving,...
View ArticleBusy Is The New Black
As an entrepreneur, I’m driven by big ideas, bigger goals, hard deadlines, and have been in the process of cultivating, selling, and creating new companies while at the same time raising a family,...
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