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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?

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

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

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...

Be your own best caretaker

Taking care of other people can be a kind and charitable act.  We now know that acts of kindness can physically affect our well-being as well as being psychologically heart-warming. Altruistic emotions – the “helper’s high” – seem to gain dominance...

Be a Good Samaritan and Reduce Your Stress

Personal note The normal chaos of everyday life has continued in the past week, and I have had an excellent opportunity to add more coping skills to my repertory. The inspiration for today’s article came on a particularly busy (and frustrating) day, when obstacles...

Evaluating Other People

Personal note This has been the last week leading up to my new seminar, “Expand Your Time, Tame Your Tension … and Expand Your Life!”. It has been filled with a myriad of opportunities to practice what I teach – remaining serene and focused when social hurricanes...

What are you waiting for?

Personal note For several years, I have been calling myself, with some embarrassment, “The Stress Solutions Expert Who Had a Heart Attack.”  I learned a lot from the event that I would not have learned otherwise, and now I can share it with the world. In the past two...

Planning to take a risk

Personal note This has been an exciting time, stepping out to meet with different women’s groups, such as the Women’s Health Leadership TRUST, Magnetic Women Networking Group,  Women Speakers’ Association, and more.  During these meetings  I have met so many different...