You’re The Boss, Stressed, And At Work—How Best To Manage This?

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BEING STRESSED AT WORK, because of work, is such a massive source of pain in the lives of so many of us that it’s even come to the point where you’re reading posts such as this one… I know, a sure sign of desperate times. Feeling stretched at work is like being a parent at … Read more

Work-Life-Balance Is A Crock—Do This Instead…

Work/life balance is horseshite. Either work is enlivening and life is productive, or we’re in the trap of working as a means to an end and living as a way of checking out. Look up ‘work-life balance’ online and you’ll get inundated with advice and admonishment. Or don’t. It won’t matter anyway. The whole enterprise … Read more

The One Strategy GUARANTEED to Have You In the Ideal Mindset For Your Next Challenging Situation

If you have something coming up that you want, you need, to be on your A-Game for—how do you make it for sure that you will be? You can be as physically prepared as is humanly possible—and you should be—but you know there’s that X-factor that will determine more than anything else you do to … Read more

Leveraging Defensiveness—Why You Should And How To Do It

Defensiveness is one of the monsters under our collective beds. Worse yet, under the guise of so-called Ego (being egoic, ego-driven, etc), Defensiveness practically becomes the secular version of evil; “defensive” is not something you want to be accused of, it’s a character flaw.  Well, if that is the case, then we are all similarly … Read more