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Make Time For Now

Last Friday afternoon I decided to retreat into my shell. Earlier in the day, I had a really disappointing business

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Resting and Digesting in a Beautiful Place or Wherever You Are

A fight or flight response chronically stuck in the on-position can lead to poor performance, bad decision making, and serious health issues that can shorten your life expectancy. The good news is that, in addition to a sympathetic nervous system, we’re all equipped with a parasympathetic nervous system. The nickname for that is the rest and digest response.

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The Secrets of a 30-Year Partnership Revealed

So, it was back in March of 1985 when I was dared to ask Diane Dougherty out on a date. She worked in an office across the hall from mine in a Washington, DC trade association. It was my first real job out of college and she was an intern in town for a semester.

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Mindful Mondays: How to Silence Your Itty Bitty Committee

A while back, I was coaching an executive who found herself getting emotionally hijacked. Like a lot of executives in large organizations, her job required her to work cross-functionally with lots of different people. That kind of work environment leads to lots of conversations, meetings, e-mail threads, presentations and the like. With all of that information flying around the matrix, there are lots of opportunities to get hijacked if you’re not watching out for it.

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A 90-Year-Old’s Ten Rules for a Healthy and Happy Life

One of the more revealing regular features in The New York Times is a little story they run each week called Sunday Routine. In it, someone, usually famous or notable in some way, walks the reader through what a typical Sunday in New York City is like for them. Quite often they have packed so many activities into their Sunday that I leave with the impression that what they’ve actually described is their fantasy of a perfect 48 hour Sunday in New York rather than what they really do.

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3 Leadership Lessons Illustrated by Tom Hanks Heroes

With all of the different roles he’s played in the movies, Tom Hanks is as well qualified as anyone to speculate on what makes a hero a hero. From Army Ranger captain John Miller in Saving Private Ryan to astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 to the cargo ship commander Captain Phillips and, coming later this year, “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot Sully Sullenberger, Hanks has lots of experience going deep on what makes a hero.

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Mindfulness at Work Doesn’t End When You Leave Work

This week I wrote a piece over at Fast Company about a “minor work habit” that is leading to burnout for countless workers, from junior team members to executives. What’s the habit? E-mail. Or rather, answering work e-mail after 7 or 8 PM. What I prove in the article is that there’s an extremely high chance that all those e-mails you feel obligated to answer from your boss are completely unnecessary — and I have numbers to prove it.

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