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Wisdom & Loneliness

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According to recent published research, loneliness is increasing. Despite technology’s instant access to everyone everywhere, researchers have identified three periods of adulthood when moderate-to-severe feelings of loneliness tend to spike: Our late-twenties. Our mid-fifties. Our late-eighties. One of the big surprises researchers discovered is that three-fourths of all study participants reported moderate-to-high levels of loneliness. […]

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Devotion: An Exquisite Element of Life

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Devotion. When it comes to important elements of life, do you have it or is it lacking? Devotion comes with strong emotional bonds, which help determine who you are, the choices you make, and the personal brand you exhibit. Definition:“A keen, committed, and loyal commitment. Zealous or ardent in attachment, loyalty, or affection.”  Gaps in life can be filled several action-oriented ways. […]

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The Pursuit of Happiness

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Do you buy this hypothesis or not? Last month Fast Company magazine published an on-line book promotion piece that claimed most of our beliefs about how to pursue happiness are wrong. If you take a look at this list and have a moment to let me know whether or not you buy what the authors are […]

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Mondays: Hard or Easy to Engage?

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The recent uptick in #MondayMotivation social mediaposts triggers four questions: Are Mondays truly a downer for a majority of workers? Do people need – and crave – a pick-me-up when reentering their professional lives after the freedom of the weekend? Why are motivation levels in the workplace declining? How can we shake off the Monday blues? Beyond social […]

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How to Argue on Social Media

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As social media wastes increasing amounts of time and cloud memory, those that engage soon come to realize that interfacing with others is not the happy, genteel arena it was originally designed to be. The sites have devolved into spit pits of often rude, crude, or lewd sword fighting. Skirmishes are not for the meek […]

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The Ebb & Flow of Life: How to Survive the Holidays

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Good Year or Bad Year? The 10 Things that Happen Each Year Nothing creates emotional amplitude quite like the holidays. Especially this year. Social upheaval, global mistrust, selfishness, and behavioral unaccountability hardly mix a wonderful soufflé. Noise and uncertainty create disruption, as do mortality and circumstantial happenstance. Good things happen to bad people, bad things […]

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Today’s Assignment: Going Old School

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This time of year life seems easy or challenging, headlines scream abuse and conspiracy, and happiness washes upon us either in buckets or droplets. Surrounded by all that, today we are each empowered to brighten someone’s day in the simplest of ways. Today’s assignment is simple. When someone passes by, look at them and smile. […]

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Five Keys to Staying Positive in Trying Times

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In 2007  the global recession toppled dominoes around the world. Around the world we shared a common enemy, which was economic instability. Flash forward a decade: Today  global angst looks like a life-sized Lego puzzle. Divisiveness rules,  mistrust abounds, and conclusion-jumping has leap-frogged a long assumed, more traditional respect for measured, fact-based, contemplative thought. What’s […]

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