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Sometimes it’s difficult to tell if your experience is a dream, a memory or a lie. Like when you wake up from a nightmare feeling convinced that the event really happened to you. Or when you’ve fantasized about a person so many times, you actually have to stop and ask yourself, wait, did we really meet up in that hotel room, or was it just my imagination? What about…

Being colorblind doesn’t have a huge impact on my daily life. My reds and greens may be a bit off kilter, but other than the occasional fashion faux pas, and one or two traffic light homicides, it’s not something worth obsessing over. In fact, my inability to discern certain colors has led me to ask an important question. What if everything in my life didn’t have to match perfectly?…

There’s a popular study that polled two thousand workers about their daily schedules. One question was, if you had to state a figure, how long do you think you spend productively working during work hours on a daily basis? The results of revealed the average answer to be just under three hours. In a typical workday, that nets out to less than forty percent. Are you surprised by this…

Seinfeld was once asked how he felt about death. His response was: Dying is going to be fantastic! Think of all things you’re done with. What a beautiful, liberating concept. Because is there any sweeter sensation than being done with things? It’s the best. You just feel so light and free and complete. Note, for my usage of the word done, it’s not the classic definition of finishing something…

Here’s a statistic that blows my mind. Fifty percent of people cannot touch their toes. Isn’t that sad? The hilarious part is, the person who commissioned that research study is the chairman of a global fitness franchise, so the data might be a bit biased. Nevertheless, the issue of flexibility, or lack thereof, is a critical one to discuss. Not only because it can lead to life threatening circulatory…

Some people can’t follow directions, and some people can’t function without them. The first camp describes me perfectly. It’s not a learning disability or a cognitive impairment, it’s just the way my brain works. Linear thinking simply isn’t my thing. What’s more, my rebellious and independent nature doesn’t want or need to be told what to do, and so, traveling without a map is most likely my default mode….

Gallup has been the doomsday sayer of employee disengagement for the past two decades. Every year, there’s some new study about how seventy percent of employees nationwide are actively disengaged at work. And how leaders and managers should make caring for their best assets a higher priority, transforming for their workplace into a fulfilling and motivating experience. But what about the employees? Is it not their responsibility to meet…

More information isn’t always the answer. Sometimes we simply need to remember. Trusting that we already know what we need to know, and that if we reconnect with that part of ourselves, we’ll be able to move forward. After all, the word remember derives from the term memorari, which means, to be mindful of. That’s all we’re doing here. Bringing perspective into our awareness to soothe ourselves. Cognitive behavioral…

Oftentimes the thing that inspires moral outrage in others is when we choose not to do something. Sobriety has historically been my version of this. Drinking or doing drugs never had any appeal to me. And no judgments to those who imbibed, it simply wasn’t my thing. But in a college setting, I was definitely the freak at the table. Because when you disrupt that flow, there’s clearly something…

The thing about your wedding is, no matter how much you may dislike being the center of attention, there’s no stopping the indescribable experience of receiving that much love in such a short period of time. It’s sweet, raw, pure and unstoppable. And it’s particularly difficult if you’re a giver. Anytime there’s a prodigious amount of love energy coming back to us, we can’t help but get overwhelmed at…