Cultivate your sense of wonder to improve your business and life — When you become aware of some little wonder-full things or something larger than yourself your mental chatter and worries shrink, and you experience higher levels of overall life satisfaction, productivity, and well-being. You are less stressed. You can connect better with yourself and others. Experiencing Awe And Feeling Better Experiencing awe can put your daily…

5 Transferable Lessons from other areas of work and life — Sometimes we try to figure things out and get stuck. For example, how can we connect with an audience? What can be helpful is to look into other areas of work, businesses, subject matters, or your past experience to find an idea or different approach. Take photography as a model…

You are just the garbage can for those who can’t stop talking — What is this thing about listening? Why do I really need to pay attention to what the other person is saying and trying to convey to me? What’s in it for me? “As leaders and positive difference-makers, one of our biggest challenges, we must turn into an opportunity is to…

Here are 6 playful ways to tame your distraction — Turns out that not only you or I have some issues with concentrating on one thing, even the monks in medieval times already struggled with focusing and paying attention. The goal for the monks was “clearsighted calm above the chaos,” as the author and associate professor of history at the…

Stop talking so bad about it and be nice to your time — Do you notice how bad we treat time? We love to build sentences that put the word time next to words with negative connotations. When you think about time you probably think in terms of scarcity, and lack of time. I don’t have time! Time is running out. Hurry! Time…

What to eliminate to make space for stuff you want to welcome in? — “So, what are you going to do with this new year? With these 365 days? Every one of them full of 24 hours of opportunity. Each day full of 86.400 seconds. About the same number of heartbeats.” – Mark Shayler You probably have a lot of ideas and plans for…

Here is Why — Time has value. Time is precious. The sentence we grow up with is that Time is Money. We get told over and over again that the value of time is measured in money. In the past, no one would have thought of measuring time and calculating it in money. …

This is about expanding your perception and embracing your imperfections — My friend was playing basketball in her small basketball group that comes together leisurely to play for fun and some exercise. She has currently some health issues which weakened her play and her friends on the court noticed. …

Easy to implement steps to take back control over your life — We let the world push us around and schedules, duties and pressure rule our lives. Here are 12 small activities that help you to stress less — and that are simple to execute. #1 Take The Stairs, Avoid The Elevator If possible, take the stairs and ditch the elevator. Your body gets a miniature workout which gets…