Our time is minimal, and our days go by so fast. Spend it with optimal energy and focus, and spend it doing your work in a way that you enjoy. While the work still needs to get done, there is nothing wrong with changing your routine and finding better ways to focus on your work…
Work-life balance. Is this a real thing, or just a unicorn that so many of us are endlessly searching for? And what exactly does work-life balance even mean anyway? While each of us interprets something a bit different from it, the basic principle is that it means having a satisfying amount of time available outside…
Hate takes a toll on a person’s health—mentally, emotionally, and physically! When we feel hatred, we’re releasing stress hormones in our brains. The long-term effect of living with stress leads to inflammation in the body, which opens the door for several other health conditions. If you just did a mental rundown of the people in…
Getting in the “zone” for work can be hard. Especially when we are working from home. Sometimes we’re distracted. Sometimes we’re stressed. And let’s face it, sometimes we just don’t want to be doing the task in front of us. We have to learn how to take the reigns of our brain and steer it…
Does it feel like you’re running on fumes these days? If so, you’re not alone. The global crisis has added an extra layer of stress and anxiety on top of our usual workload. Because many of us have been forced into new routines with new obstacles, we have to look even more closely at how…
Most of us are currently facing challenges that we didn’t expect. We had a vision for 2020, and it didn’t involve a global crisis. It’s easy to get stuck looking for who to blame, overwhelmed by anxiety and stress. However, if we can make a shift to reframe our perspective, we might just be able…
There is hope for insomniacs and the super stressed thanks to the mental health movement called positive psychology. Proponents of this movement contend that the stress itself is not the culprit of ill effects such as insomnia, but how people think about it and their resulting reactions. Dale Carnegie said, “It isn’t what you have…
Goal setting is a worthwhile and necessary function on the road to success. But over-striving to meet goals often results in more stress, and thus, the need to find ways to reduce it. When attempting to reduce goal-oriented stress, your friends at Dale Carnegie Training of Central & Western PA recommends first examining the goals you’ve set…