So many of us crunch ourselves into impossible sitting or standing positions and forget to move our bodies during the workday. Fight this by setting regular reminders in your calendar to get up, stretch, and get the blood flowing throughout your body. Since I’ve become mindful of stretching during...
Whether for work or pleasure, travel is complicated -- even if you enjoy traveling, like me. The logistics of managing time, energy and the disruption of your regular schedule can enable a pretty stressful, sometimes anxiety-inducing experience. Your task against complacency today is to optimize your next travel plans. Here...
I’ve started noticing that my most productive, fulfilling days — the ones where I fall asleep at night feeling that satisfying kind of tired that only comes from a great day’s work — are the ones where I am awake when the sun rises. So I’ve begun waking up...
One of the harsh truths of high-performance work is that we humans are not robots. The pressure of competing deadlines, exceedingly high standards, and juggling work with adulting adds up. My team and I firmly believe that taking a mental health day is just as important as taking a day...
Last week, two glasses of red into the evening, my husband Mike and I were having a conversation about our mornings, and we came up with a proposed tweak to our morning routine (one of my favorite topics). I said, “Great! Want to run through the morning, starting from the...
Some of us are highly accountable to commitments we make. Even major habit changes are relatively easy because once we’ve formally committed to something, it immediately becomes law. For many of us, though, making a commitment and following through on it are two different sets of actions. Today, we’...
