What project are you putting off right now? Is there an important task you could be doing now, but are unnecessarily saving for later? Voluntarily delaying anything may lead you to believe that you are an inherently lazy worker. But are you truly lazy if the task, project, or undertaking at hand asks that you be detail-oriented or…
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Being busy is not the same as being productive. It’s the difference between running on a treadmill and running to a destination. They’re both running, but being busy is running in place. I was coaching Sanjay,* a leader in a technology firm who felt stuck and frustrated. He wasn’t where he wanted to be at…
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Social isolation kills, and in the process it makes it harder to reach out to others. A psychologist explains how to break the cycle. “I’m clearly a textbook case of the silent majority of middle-aged men who won’t admit they’re starved for friendship, even if all signs point to the contrary,” wrote Billy Baker in his recent…
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Perhaps it’s just because of my “story”… About how I had this crazy idea to make a documentary film about EFT Tapping, with no filmmaking experience, limited funds (my personal credit cards!) and no initial team… And yet somehow managed to get the film out into the world, create the Tapping World Summits, and write a NY Times best-selling book……
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How do you recover after a bad day spent entirely in bed? Like I suspect many people here do, I suffer from bouts of depression. I am in therapy and on medication, but I still have the occasional “stay in bed all day sleeping/doing nothing, don’t get dressed, eat nothing/eat a lot of random crap,…
Last week, a friend on my intramural soccer team told me how she’d gotten almost nothing done at her job that day, and she was feeling guilty about it. I’ve been there before and could really relate to her. When you want to be a good employee, you have the desire to always be producing…
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Imagine sitting down at a table in a small room with seven other people. You’re all about to participate in a psychology experiment concerning people’s visual judgments. The experimenter places two cards in front of you. The card on the left contains one vertical line. The card to the right has three lines of varying…
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Tight-lipped, frosty and fake, the passive-aggressive person never quite takes the blame. Is this always a bad thing? Imagine the following. I’m planning a birthday celebration, and everyone’s invited. I start a group chat on Facebook to discuss the arrangements. While all this is going on, my sister, Fleur, does something to upset me. Genuinely…
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Little things become big things. When you justify and allow even little things into your life which your intuition warns you against, you permit a virus to enter your life. It spreads to other areas. When you introduce a change to any system, you simultaneously change the whole system. The other areas of the system…
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If someone just read you the riot act, or you had your you-know-what handed to you by a boss or a peer, it’s human to feel down and want to process your thoughts. Just don’t dwell there too long, or you may venture into victim mentality. Recovering emotionally from a challenging work moment doesn’t happen with the flip…
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