How to Avoid Holiday Stress Insanity

by | Nov 26, 2013

Personal note I believe in indulging in the different pleasures that the changing seasons bring, but sometimes it’s difficult to keep up. Christmas trees and music have appeared in stores, even before I have put out my favorite autumn decorations: a figure of a red...

What’s in your bucket?

by | Nov 19, 2013

Personal note In the last week, the air has been filled with swirling irregular shapes in orange, red, and yellow fluttering against a blue-gray sky. The wind whips these falling leaves into patterns that resemble small horizontal tornadoes, scudding across the...

Does persistence really pay off?

by | Nov 5, 2013

Personal note I spent much of last week in California, mixing family time with business appointments.It was heavenly; on Saturday a dear friend and I went down to the Ferry Building in San Francisco and browsed the wares of the creative street merchants who were...

What the heck is eustress?

by | Oct 29, 2013

Personal note I recently joined a TED talk group, and then missed the first meeting due to a frustrating maze of road repairs that made it seemingly impossible to get there. People e-mailed me a link to a YouTube video of one of the talks, in which the speaker...

Is Tech Stress Driving You Screaming Mad?

by | Oct 23, 2013

Personal note The leaves are turning brilliant colors of gold, orange and red, and soon will be dropping from the trees. In contrast, my life feels as if it were blossoming as in a particularly jubilant Spring. This week truly feels like the first week of the rest of...

Whose Deadline Is It, Anyway?

by | Sep 24, 2013

Personal note I wrote today’s article in 2011, and I’m recycling it because I am being crowded by deadlines again, as I’m pretty sure you are too as the Fall season kicks off, and I firmly believe that “Stress Makes Us Stupid.” We need constant reminders of...

Are your Bragging Rights killing you?

by | Sep 17, 2013

Personal note A lovely relaxed long week-end with a dear friend prompted me to think about how I am dealing with my own life, as well as about my clients who are abusing their bodies in the name of busy-ness.   We had an urban staycation, with ample time to chat about...

What’s the difference between problem-solving and rumination?

by | Sep 3, 2013

I had occasion to explore this issue myself this week, when I discovered that somehow my utility company had switched the account number and name on the bill it sends to my home each month. Confidently and proudly paying my bills online on the first of each month, I...

Make It Easy On Yourself

by | Aug 26, 2013

Make it easy on yourself: Have you ever been caught in a race that never ends:  one in which the big prize at the end is as far out of reach as it is when you started, and the small rewards along the way that might sustain you  have gotten to be scarcer and scarcer? ...