A few months ago, around the holiday season, a friend and I walked into a wine bar on the Upper West Side. (Sounds like a bad joke.) Sitting there at…
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How To Stay Calm and Cool In A Crazy Uncertain World (Gus Fring Style)
In the hit TV show Breaking Bad, Gus Fring is a drug lord and one of the most prominent meth distributors in the southwestern United States. At one point, Gus…
What’s Your M.O. — Crash and Burn, or Rest and Recover?
Are you operating at your maximum or your optimum? Nido Qubein, president of High Point University, asked this question and it highlighted one of the behavioral mysteries I’ve long observed…
Fight-or-Flight: It’s Now Optional
Imagine it’s 1 million BC and you’re Zog, the caveman. Every day you wake up with one mission: to go out and hunt for food to feed you and your…
Five Ways To Flex Your Gratitude Muscle
Developing the habit of gratitude has become a common buzzword in mainstream media, touted as the key to less stress, better health and more happiness. Considering there are hundreds, if…
Improvise Over the Beat of Life
Lately, I’ve been thinking about rhythm. Brimming over with ideas for work projects and collaboration, I tend to get impatient with the relaxed pace of August in New York, when…
Make Resistance Futile: Three Subtle Shifts To Move From Procrastination To Action
It’s that time of year: If procrastination had a season, no doubt it would be the months before income taxes are due. Though some people claim to work better under…
Keeping Your Balance in Turbulent Times
In the economic turbulence of recent weeks, each day drops a new bomb: historic slides in the market, unprecedented bank failures. Every other conversation seems to revolve around lay-offs, bankruptcies…