A couple of weeks ago, I asked this question: “Are you celebrating your success?” The point is that many of us are always chasing success without pausing to actually celebrate the success we’ve achieved so far. Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, has studied and written about this extensively. In one of the most […]
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Our son attended a gymnastics camp last week and learned the meaning of “Switch!” — as in, when one kid’s turn is up, it’s time to “switch!” so the next person gets a turn. I like that word, and I think we should all adopt it… Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, writes that,
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What can kids on the playground teach you about managing your employees? A lot. (And probably not what you think!) On Friday morning, I was heading back to the office after some morning errands when I drove by my son’s school and saw the kids outside on the playground. I needed to get back to
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As featured on MarketWatch.com, the somewhat contrarian advice of inspirational speaker, Shawn Ellis, is being called a “breath of fresh air” by attendees of his “This Moment Matters” seminar and keynote presentation. There’s no question that heavy workloads are getting people down: The accelerating pace and complexity of life and work today has 63 percent
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In recent years, it seems that everywhere you turn someone’s talking about happiness. (Even me.) There are well over 30,000 books on the subject at Amazon.com, like: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun The
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