As a former member of a math team in high school, I found my classes in algebra, geometry, college-level logic, and other math topics pretty interesting and generally easy. But when I hit my accounting class in my MBA program, I struggled mightily to focus my attention on a topic that felt incredibly dry and boring to me. [...]

How many challenges does it take to throw you off your game? Are you immediately in a bad mood when you wake up on a Monday morning? Or are you OK until the guy cuts you off in traffic? Or can you make it to the point of the meeting where someone says something really [...]

Taking some deep cleansing breaths is a basic component of stress management, anger management, yoga, meditation, martial arts, and many other healthy practices. But on a hectic Monday morning, people tend to breathe more quickly and shallowly while rushing to start a new week. Below is a one-minute Greenpeace video that can help reconnect you [...]

The Discovery Channel runs popular shows such as “Animal Face-Off” and “Ultimate Warrior” to analyze which of two ferocious animals (e.g., lion vs. tiger) or fierce warriors (e.g., Apache vs. Samurai) would defeat the other in a battle.
In Neil Gaiman’s classic Sandman series, there is a famous battle of wits between the mythical Sandman (Morpheus) [...]

If we don’t get the promotion we want, then we might want to quit our job. If our spouse keeps failing to meet our expectations, then we might want to quit our marriage. If we don’t lose weight as quickly as we want, then we might want to quit our diet.
In short, the temptation to [...]

Michael Jordan said, “I missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” 
Wildly successful people often stumble repeatedly until they hit their stride, [...]

Does it ever seem like you’re drowning in multiple stacks of documents, forms, bills, journals/magazines, junk mail, coupons, receipts, post-it notes, and various other papers at home or the office? If so, you’re not alone. Many people seem to be swamped with countless pieces of paper, and finding a place to store/file/stack it all is [...]

As we enter a new week in a new month of a new year in a new decade, we can be assured of new changes on the horizon. And as a general rule, we won’t welcome them. Researchers have shown that people tend to greet change with skepticism, denial, rebellion, anger, fear, and other negative [...]

It can be tough to experience this season as the most wonderful time of the year when money is tight (50% of Americans are spending less on gifts this year), lots of people are coming down with colds and the flu, and grim news seems to greet us whenever we open the newspaper. Despite all [...]

On Thanksgiving, my parents, my husband, our 2-year-old daughter, and I were driving to another city to join other family and friends for a traditional holiday feast. About halfway to our destination, our daughter’s outfit was ruined, so we pulled over at a gas station to change her. That’s when we realized that neither my husband nor [...]