Category: Mental Fitness
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Great Expectations: The Ultimate Disappointment Machine
Stop expecting so much from your employees, your family, and yourself. It’s a waste of time and a perpetual fountain of disappointment. Sounds ridiculous, right? But, hear me out. I’m not suggesting you lower the bar of what you’d like to see happen in those around you. And I’m certainly not asking you to stop…
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Time Management is Pain Management
You’ve probably struggled at some point with the age-old enigma of time management. You’ve wrestled with the hours, but the hours always win. You know why? You’re fighting the wrong fight. Time management is not finding a way to manage time. It is finding a way to manage discomfort – the discomfort of maintaining focus.…
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Could Time-blocking be the Self-care You Never Knew You Needed?
When we think of self-care, most of us imagine spa days, yoga, meditation, or maybe a well-deserved vacation—anything to break away from the grind. But here’s the question you didn’t know you needed to ask: Could time-blocking actually be the most powerful form of self-care? Even though we’ve all done it at some point, we…
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The Other F-Word
Are you looking forward to going to work today? Or do you feel a sense of dread or stress just wishing you could do anything else but go to work? It happens. Some days you’re ready to embrace the day, and other days you’re ready to race for the nearest exit. But what if you…
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3 Ways to Use Breath to Get You Out of Trouble
[Inhale —— Exhale] Go ahead. You do it too. Take a nice deep breath. Come on…you know you want to. [Inhale —— Exhale] That’s it. Feels good, right? Of course it does. You’re doing what comes naturally and easily with virtually no effort at all. Your body does this for you all day and all…