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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…

Rebels aren’t necessarily energized by flouting the rules. What really motivates us is our desire to determine our own course of action. To view our choices as expressions of our identity. Whereas rebelling for rebellion’s sake can be overreactive, immature and potentially reckless. It’s the moral equivalent to cutting off your nose to spite your face. And there’s a ton of nuance here. Rebellion is all about mindset, intention,…