Professional relationships are complex and even delicate sometimes. While many work relationships may blossom into beautiful friendships that enhance effective collaboration, some are not quite so rosy. Any individual who has been an active professional for a long time will tell you that the people you work with can make or break your work experience. Find out the best ways to get along with coworkers.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Posted in Business and Leadership
The uncertainty of the last couple of years has increased anxiety across the globe. Never before have we been more connected electronically yet seemingly disconnected from ourselves. Adults and children alike put their attention daily on negative social media feeds and news specials that often intensify this hypertension. Numerous people struggle to maintain a work-life balance while stress, burnout, and substance addictions climb. Thus, inner peace can seem unattainable, yet a calmer self is within your reach.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Posted in Emotional Intelligence & Fitness
There's nothing quite like the enthusiasm of a new goal or beginning—a new year with a clean white page to write on. Or maybe your goal is dropping that extra weight picked up over the winter (hand raised). Or you just starting a new yoga class or hired a trainer at the gym! New and novel wakes up the brain!
But if you're like many, your goals, especially the long-term ones, fizzle out quicker than a lit candle stuck in wet snow. Did you know there are simple brain hacks to break bad habits, stick to goals, and achieve success?
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Posted in Emotional Intelligence & Fitness
From an early age, we’re inundated by the concept of success through television, movies, the music industry, social media, and other people.
But the pressure to succeed doesn’t only affect children. Many parents also feel the strain. Some parents resort to extreme measures to help their children prosper in academic and extracurricular activities.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Posted in Perfectly Imperfect Parenting, Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective
Many companies across all industries are struggling to hire quality employees and keep them. The complaints that I hear most often from company owners and leaders are relentless turnover and attrition. Employee attrition is a huge problem. Once hired, some people don’t even show up for their first day of work or quit after a few weeks.
Therefore, company hiring and training costs have surged. These challenges are compounded by poor employee attitudes, a sense of entitlement, and hires lacking the internal motivation to do the work.
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Posted in Business and Leadership
While the holiday season is full of magical moments, it is also a season full of stress, anxiety, and, sometimes, grief. Visiting relatives, buying gifts, feeling travel anxiety, and missing lost loved ones can make for an overwhelming time of year.
You deserve plenty of “me-time” on the off-days that you aren’t celebrating the holidays. To help you make the best of the season, we have curated a list of 13 ways to practice self-care during the holiday season. Relax, unwind, and get ready to relieve yourself from holiday stress.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Posted in Habits for Health
Adult children of emotionally immature parents are often left feeling like they can't make it on their own or somehow that they're not enough. These same parents are often self-involved, and they give mixed messages to their children growing up about their lovability and individuality. It's recently been coined as "eggshell parenting": One minute the parent is affirming and kind, the next minute shaming and yelling.
Parents' emotional immaturity is confusing and denies a child the deep sense of being felt and seen, which hinders a child's budding self-identity.
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Posted in Perfectly Imperfect Parenting, Emotional Intelligence & Fitness
Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist and founder of the Amen Clinics, believes that our brain is the hard drive of our souls. That’s a radical statement, but the brain is the command center of our entire system. Without a working brain, we lack self-identity, cannot interact with the world, and lose the ability to learn, grow, and experience life.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Posted in Brain Fitness, Mindfulness and Perspective, Habits for Health
Whether you’re tying the knot with the one you love or helping a friend or family member plan their wedding, there are a lot of numbers to get straight in the process. Thankfully, there are tons of statistics to help inform your decision-making and spark creativity. You’ll be surprised by some of the marriage proposal stats!
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Posted in Love, Marriage, and Relationships, Intentional Weddings & Wedding Planning
Resilience is a hot topic, especially after the pandemic quarantines and subsequent unpredictability for children, teens, and adults alike. As a parent, we cannot control many things that happen in our children's lives socially or at school. However, we can empower our children by teaching them resiliency and emotional intelligence skills to help them respond effectively to life's curveballs and challenges.
Emotional fitness defends against the effects of stress like physical exercise creates healthy, toned muscles that prevent injury. Just like our muscles need stretching and exertion to [...]
Posted in Perfectly Imperfect Parenting
