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The Pandemic of Loneliness and the Science of Connection

The Pandemic of Loneliness and the Science of Connection

The Covid 19 pandemic has spawned another offshoot: loneliness. It wasn’t that we were not, as a nation, lonely before the virus struck. In 2017, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness a public health “epidemic.” According to a 2018 report by the...
Stress on Steroids

Stress on Steroids

Anger seems to be everywhere these days, leaking out of normally friendly and placid people. It can be seen in their impatience: with a driver who slows down, in looking for directions, or with another person whose misunderstood request is judged to be stupid and not...
Confidence Leads To Courage

Confidence Leads To Courage

Confidence leads to courage.  I used to believe that. Master a skill, figure out exactly what to say, and you will act. Trouble is, those skills take a long time to find and master. In the meantime, you are frozen in time. An incident at a conference a few years...
Holding on to your identity during a transition?

Holding on to your identity during a transition?

  Maybe you shouldn’t be. Transitions – in life or in career – are tough. One of the hardest parts is the seeming attack on your identity when you no longer fill a given role, a role you may have played for years, even decades. People who have had to change...

Be Careful, It’s Your Heart: Warning Signs of a Heart Attack

Personal note This week’s article is a repeat of an article I do every year in February, National Heart Month. Over the past few years, I have done countless presentations of my talk, now called “The Angina Monologue,”   during which I have not only delivered...
Make good habits easy!

Make good habits easy!

Personal note 2013 has started with a bang for me: a CBS radio interview about my The Confident Introvert book with Roshini Rajkumar (hear the podcast at www.wcco.com/roshini); then speaking engagements this month that will include: “Stress, the Silent Killer”...
Is relaxation time impossible for you to find?

Is relaxation time impossible for you to find?

Personal note It’s late August, and amazingly enough, Fall is in the air. Leaves are already showing color, temperatures at night are dropping, stores are full of school supplies, and a sense of urgency to get things done after the languid days of summer seems to...
Stress – it’s a matter of choice

Stress – it’s a matter of choice

Personal note For many of us, the busy part of the year runs from September through May, and we spend the late summer gearing up for the flurry of activity that we are sure to encounter. In fact, it has already started, with requests coming in for me to speak at such...
Underlying Issues

Underlying Issues

Personal note In Minneapolis, as in much of the country, we are sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave.  This Northern city, which was once a choice vacation spot for Southerners hoping to escape the heat in the South, has posted numerous temperatures in the high...