We’re familiar with the concept of self-care—often made clear by the airplane oxygen-mask metaphor, making sure we put our oxygen-mask on first so that we can stay alive to help others. I am ALL FOR self-care. It’s critical. What I am NOT “ALL FOR” is when self-care...
These days with so many Zoom calls, most of us only see each other from the shoulders or neck up. And that has some interesting and unintended consequences for our ability to connect with one another. It turns out that the brain gives 12.5 times more weight to hand...
I recently watched a TEDx talk by Vanessa Van Edwards called “You Are Contagious.” And she’s not talking about transmission of diseases—which is something we obviously need to be careful about these days. She talked about transmission of emotions. There was some fun...
True confession time – I don’t love getting my photograph taken. As we were working on our new website for The Academies (hoping to launch it soon!), and the team unanimously voted that my picture should be on the home page, I drug my feet and put it off for weeks!...
… Then Feel It ‘Til You Figure It Out! I ran across a study recently at PsyPost.org that talked about how “deep acting” improves interpersonal work relationships and work goal progress. Deep acting means you try to actually experience the emotions that you...
As we close out 2020, I’ve heard many people say how happy they are to have the year that brought COVID-19 closed out and behind us. That’s understandable. And then the typical “it’s a new year” message is: let’s plan, let’s get some goals going, let’s get those...
