Sleep is linked to just about everything: focus, mental health, energy levels, productivity, happiness, stress, depression, eating habits, physical health, social interactions, and decision-making. Indeed, moderate sleep deprivation can decrease your performance as much as being legally intoxicated with alcohol. Yet, millions of adults don’t get enough sleep. And the solution is good sleep hygiene. [...]
This post is the first in a series that will help you gain control over your emotions, by increasing your emotional awareness, giving you strategies to regulate your emotions, and show you how to ultimately use this emotional control to your advantage. Specifically, we will give you: Tools that will help you become more aware [...]
Hard work is often seen as, well, hard work--something that drains your energy and requires a bit of suffering. Moreover, people often believe they either have self-discipline, or they don’t. But is this always true? Counter to common beliefs, research shows that people can develop self-discipline and even find hard work and self-discipline enjoyable, meaningful, [...]
Do you ever think about work in your free time, or do work-related tasks outside of your working hours? Most people do, especially those who like their job and want to be successful at it and achieve high work performance. They put extra effort in it, they come up with great ideas when they’re not [...]
Everyone wants to be happy and engaged at work. We want to enjoy what we do, feel satisfied and fulfilled. The tricky thing is, we tend to treat work motivation and engagement as something that is an element of the job – we either have a job that is interesting or a job that is [...]
FOMO--the fear of missing out--makes you feel bad and hinders your ability to focus on important goals. It’s that negative feeling you get when learning your colleagues enjoyed happy hour while you were working late, or that nagging anxiety you feel when choosing a date with your spouse over attending a networking event. So how [...]
Great leaders inspire. Typically when we think of what makes a great leader, we think of things like drive, vision, and business acumen. But what makes one an effective leader is perhaps more unsuspecting: the ability to work with (and through) emotions. It doesn’t matter if a team leader sets out to build the best [...]