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A Test For Entrepreneurial Readiness: You Have To Want To Build A MudHouse In Your Living Room

People often ask me, "How do I know if it is right to start a social entrepreneurship organization?" or "How do you make the jump and just start?" In many ways, if you have to ask that question regarding social entrepreneurship, or marriage, then I think for me--it probably isn't right. READ MORE

Road Warriors: 10 Steps For Stress Relief

Research has identified 3 unique components for "air travel stress."READ MORE

Tuscon and America: Witnessing Extreme Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

What you need to know about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.READ MORE

An Action Plan to Make Those New Year's Resolutions Stick!

Health tops most New Years resolutions lists: weight loss, exercise, eating better, drinking less alcohol, or quitting smoking. The truth is that only 75% of people maintain resolutions past the first week. By six months, less than half (46%) of people will maintain their resolutions. But don't stop making a plan.READ MORE

Creating Your Personal BestStress Zone in the Workplace

How to avoid JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater's experience.READ MORE

Work-Life Balance Digitally Destroyed: One in Three Permanently Connected to Employer

If you're the sort who takes a sneaky peek at your work email on your BlackBerry while in the bar with pals in the evening, don't feel too guilty. Web conferencing company InterCall (arguably biased toward reporting people are ...READ MORE

Go Red! The Stress-Healthy Heart Connection.

Simple Steps to Reduce Stress & Your Risk of Heart Disease.READ MORE

The SOLUTION for SUCCESS with NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

It’s that time again. New Years Resolutions.  Here is the challenge; thinking about change is not good enough!  For 2010, why not  create resolutions for life, literally. Better, healthier, longer life.  That’s ...READ MORE

Tips for Holiday Stress Relief

Time, money, personal relationships, the job, shopping, aging parents or relatives, family gatherings, under employment & unemployment affecting you or someone you know.  Stress during the holidays this year is inevitable! ...READ MORE

Okay Enough About Tiger. And Elin. What About The Rest of Us?

 Research for my just released new book, Optimal Stress: Living in Your Best Stress Zone (John Wiley & Sons) allowed me to ask very high performing working women to describe “...three of the most stressful ...READ MORE

The 3 "Must Have" Gifts to Give & Receive this Holiday Season Guaranteed to Reduce Your Stress

#1 Give Kids the Gift of Certainty. According to the the annual American Psychological Association (APA) Study, Stress in America (released 11/3/09) parents and kids had a very different perspectives on how our kids are experiencing ...READ MORE

Reduce Your Risk for Swine Flu by Reducing Your Stress!

10 Simple Remedies for Staying Healthy During Flu SeasonREAD MORE

What's Unique About Stress in the Lives of Working Women?

What about Stress and WorkLife Balance.READ MORE

Tough Times Are a Litmus Test for Whether You’re in the Right Caree

You don’t need me to tell you thatthe business climate is very uncertain, to say the least. So many industriesare taking a hit, and everyone is asking you: “How’s your business?” It’s likely that you’re busier thanever. ...READ MORE

Keeping Your Career Healthy in a Sick Economy

Last week the New York Times features a piece called "Staying Healthy in a Sick Economy". It caught my attention. This particular article talked about staying fit, a particular obsession of mine, but it got me thinking about ...READ MORE

House Democrats considering doing WHAT to 401(k)s?

This from Workforce Management’s e-newslettter came through our inbox this week and the first reaction we had was “What? Why?” Take a look: House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks Powerful House ...READ MORE

Work / Life Balance

Recently I was at a Coaching Best Practices Conference at INSEAD Global Leadership Centre in Fontainebleau.  To say the conference itself blew me away is an understatement. Stay tuned for many  posts to come. For now however, ...READ MORE

Not ready for the AARP, 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' panel at South by Southwest Interactive

Want to know what's out there on the web for those of us who are Just Over 50 and Not Ready for the AARP, join the conversation online or in person at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin on March 8. Check the Just Over 50 ...READ MORE