The Brain Rules
John Medina, author of Brain Rules, is utterly brilliant. Take a look at one of his videos on multitasking and why talking on your cell phone while driving is not a good idea.
John Medina, author of Brain Rules, is utterly brilliant. Take a look at one of his videos on multitasking and why talking on your cell phone while driving is not a good idea.
For some light Sunday fodder, I thought a good stress-busting tip was in order. After a full week of work, travel and schedule juggling, Sundays are indeed a day of rest. Can’t relax? Grab a good read. According to a recent study at the University […]
The fifth in a series of work-life balance stories brings us to Los Angeles and New York where Yelizavetta Kofman and Astri von Arbin Ahlander, respectively, offered their astounding insights into Generation Y’s views on work, life ,and parenting. As co-founders of The Lattice Group that […]
“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.” -Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) We often hear “You’re as young as you feel” or “You’re as young as you think you are!” Think about it. How important is our […]
Last night my husband and I watched CNBC’s House of Cards, a special report that aired in the US in February about the origins of the housing market crisis. In short, it showed how subprime mortgages funded mortgage-backed securities that even impacted a community in […]
“Never leave the house without your lipstick and pearls,” my grandmother would say. As long as you had those things, she claimed, you were considered fully dressed. She was of an era of up-dos and crinolin. She had class, style, and charisma. The Associated Press […]
Three great quotes to start off your Monday morning right: “What is time, if you don’t share it?” ~unknown (okay, pulled from an ad in a high-end glossy magazine) “When the show’s over, I walk into this empty auditorium–and there’s no applause, there’s no echoes […]
Living without petroleum products for a day was tiring, to say the least! The camera crew came to our house at exactly 9:30 am as promised. They set up a few shots ahead of time, filmed us having breakfast in our normal fashion, and took […]
The phone jangled me awake this morning. I decided to sleep in after a massive headache told me I’d better. The good news is my headache was gone by the time my friend called an hour later. She was calling to tell me she had read about a […]
I had anything but a slow day. The difference this time was I noticed as my day unfolded how unslow it felt. Instead of immediately getting wrapped up in the frenzy, I took things as they came, and made room for a twenty-minute power walk […]