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You are driving down the road and can hardly keep your eyes open. Note to self–I need more sleep. In fact, if you are awake for nineteen hours, you as as cognitively impaired as someone who is legally drunk. Sleep is needed to reboot our body and keep us alert. We need at least seven hours a…

Do you find yourself lacking passion for your work? Do you get up every morning and think, it’s another day, another paycheck? You have no excitement, no energy. It’s just a job! If so, it may be time to think. about how to bring passion to your work. Passion creates energy, innovation and creativity. It makes you…

“I love my wife. We are friends, but I am cheating on her.” This husband represents a number of people who are not in unhappy marriages but still have an affair. Their partners are not problematic, yet they cheat. This doesn’t fit our idea that only people in bad marriages are unfaithful. Something has to be wrong…

This past weekend the NCAA announced the teams that would fill the March Madness brackets. For fun, I took a quiz in which I had to match the angry coach with the right team. Not surprisingly, I got most of them right! We know which coaches seem to lose it on the court. In the heat of…

Parents, are you living vicariously through your children? Do you want them to fulfill your unfilled ambitions? Maybe you feel like a  friend of mine who said, “I want to give my children the life I never had.” It’s a caring sentiment, but sometimes parents can take this idea too far. Sometimes, our desires to give our…

Jenna decided to quit her job because she disliked her boss and the company. But shortly after she quit, she couldn’t stop blaming herself for a poor decision. Every night, she ruminated on the mistake she made. How could she have been so wrong? After all, she wasn’t that talented. She would never get an…

The average American woman is 5’4″ and weighs 144 pounds. The average supermodel is 5’10” and weighs 110 pounds. Which of those images do you see every day plastered on social media, television, advertisements, and movies? You see the tall, thin woman. The pressure to look like her can be intense. We know that we aren’t…

“She’s so likable. I’d work with her any day.” What a great sentiment to hear from a co-worker. Likability is a trait that creates success in life. And you can boost that likability by intentionally doing a few things. First, begin with eye contact. When you are with other people, look around the room. Who is laughing and…

The Chinese are concerned about the state of marriage in their country. As divorce rates rise, they decided to do a few things to see if they could curb the rate of divorce. In 2016, one attempt was through China’s Supreme Court. They made a recommendation aimed at helping couples distinguish the difference between “marital death” and “marital crisis.”…

Men with eating disorders? Not the first thought we have when we think about an eating disorder. Typically, we think of young, thin women. But this week, during eating disorders awareness week, be mindful of the fact that around 10 million men will also suffer from an eating disorder in their life. And because eating…
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