Typically, now is the time where those New Year's resolutions have gone by the wayside. What happened along the way? How did we talk ourselves out of something that just weeks ago we were so gung-ho about, shouting out to the world how excited we were to get started? How did "I'm all in" become [...]
Invariably, we all know "that" person, be it a colleague, a family member, a friend. It's the person who sucks the life out of the room, who bursts the balloons, and who simply drags us down. Recall Rachel Dratch's character "Debbie Downer" on SNL. Let's be real, life isn't all sunshine and it is important [...]
I love having this blog particularly because when an idea pops into my head, I have a place to share it with like-minded folks. Two weeks ago the phrase "emotional exercising" popped into my head. There has been a lot of discussion on emotional eating (which I have written about before), but not so much on [...]
I thought I would write about something that really got me thinking a couple of months ago when I first enrolled in my "Science of Happiness" course through the Greater Good Science Center. At the time, I had just finished an audio book (I find that audio books are great companions for my morning commute) You [...]
