It’s interesting how many of our problems are related to people issues, even in business. I love watching the TV series “The Profit”, where serial entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis invests money into faltering small businesses in exchange for an ownership stake and helps them become profitable. He identifies all the business issues, which might be missing […]
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We all have days when it is harder to feel positive. We get held up by traffic, a project we are working on runs into obstacles, someone in our family gets sick – in other words, life happens. What if there was a proven way you could feel fewer negative emotions and more positive emotions?
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Dalai Lama: “What is the purpose of life? After much consideration, I believe that the purpose of life is to find happiness… The ultimate source of happiness is within us. Not money, not power, not status… Sadly, many of the things that undermine our joy and happiness we create ourselves. Often it comes from the
It started innocently enough. A co-worker asked me for a recommendation. I don’t take writing recommendations lightly, since I want them to be sincere and it takes time to write them. But I felt that I could honestly recommend her, so I took some time writing one and sent it to her. Yet instead of
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It’s a new year again, a time when many of us choose to reflect on last year and plan ahead for the coming year. How do you choose your resolutions for the year? I usually spend quite some time on this for myself as well as with my clients. But here is an abbreviated 10
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Happy New Year! How have the first few days of the year been for you so far? Many of us use this time to make New Year’s resolutions with losing weight, self improvement and better money management topping the list. As I have been reflecting on the past few years, I tried to identify what
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Many of us realize that taking care of ourselves is important, but we often feel guilty about doing it. We may have gotten used to taking care of others, but feel that it is somehow selfish if we focus on ourselves. But loving yourself is not selfish at all. And here is why: If you
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Do you feel like your expectations are regularly met at work and in your personal life? Or do you feel like people often seem to fall short, and things don’t turn out the way you would like? A number of years back, one of my co-workers excitedly came up to me while I was getting
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What causes you stress in your life? Many of us have a whole list of stressors. Stress is the result of mental or emotional strain resulting from demanding circumstances. So it is not surprising that with today’s ever increasing demands, we find more and more things that stress us out. While there are many ways
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A couple of months ago, Wharton school professor Adam Grant wrote a piece in the NY Times titled “Unless you’re Oprah ‘Be Yourself’ is Terrible Advice.” He explained that when he was preparing for his first TED Talk, the advice he seemed to get from everyone was “be yourself.” However, he argued that nobody actually
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