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Stress is Not Your Enemy
Mental Needs, Physical Needs | COMMENTS | April 24, 2012
How often do you intentionally push yourself to discomfort?I know that sounds a little nutty, but here's why I ask: Subjecting yourself to stress is the only way to systematically get stronger — physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. And you'll get weaker if you don't.
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Tony Schwartz
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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
Mental Needs | COMMENTS | March 14, 2012
Why is it that between 25 and 50 percent of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?It's not just the number of hours we're working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time.
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Why Don't We Act in Our Own Best Interest?
Emotional Needs, Mental Needs | 3 COMMENTS | January 31, 2012
At the World Economic Forum last week, I attended a small dinner that included eight Nobel Prize winners. What a privilege in itself.The question the Laureates were asked to address was "What do you see as the world's biggest challenges?" They facilitated conversations at each table, and at the end, each of them reported out.
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"No" is the New "Yes": Four Practices to Reprioritize Your Life
Mental Needs | COMMENTS | January 17, 2012
I was sitting with the CEO and senior team of a well-respected organization. One at a time, they told me they spend their long days either in back-to-back meetings, responding to email, or putting out fires. They also readily acknowledged this way of working wasn't serving them well — personally or professionally.
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Three Powerful Lessons I Learned When I Got Offline
Mental Needs, Renewal, Technology | COMMENTS | January 4, 2012
I hadn't been offline for more than a few hours in two and a half years — and only then because I was on safari in Botswana and had no choice.Typically, the first thing I would do when I got up in the morning was to get on my laptop to check a series of sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Google Analytics, and HBR.org, to see what comments my blogs had accumulated overnight.
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