by timohai | Dec 12, 2021 | Leadership, Personal Effectiveness
Stress is an addiction In my last post, I ended with a question… Why would anyone shape their lives around pursuing something that would never be “enough?” Well, it’s a long story… Every one of us starts life with a fairly simple agenda – we want to live. When we’re...
by timohai | Nov 14, 2021 | Motivation, Personal Effectiveness
Why do we need more than we need? My grandfather taught me a lesson many, many years ago: Why do you need more than you need? You can want more than you need, but why do you need more than you need? It’s a powerful question and it gets to the heart of something that...
by timohai | Oct 24, 2021 | Personal Effectiveness
We all seem to have the same patterns… In 2014, when my wife got cancer, I learned something about myself. And I didn’t like what I learned. I don’t handle stress very well. I mean, I thought I did. I thought that with a master’s degree in psychology, a lifetime...
by timohai | Oct 17, 2021 | Leadership, Personal Effectiveness
Serve your way through stress… Let’s be realistic: stress is inevitable. And frankly, some of it can actually be good for us. But as I mentioned last week, there are six main responses to stress and only two of them are healthy: influence or adapt. What makes...
by timohai | Oct 10, 2021 | Leadership, Personal Effectiveness
Every single one of these responses is a sign that we got stressed. Did you get stressed this week? I know I did. What was the trigger? Was is someone or something? Was it an unfulfilled expectation or an unexpected disruption? I’ll get into what causes our stress...
by timohai | Oct 3, 2021 | Grief, Leadership, Personal Effectiveness
“It’s time to change the narrative…” I think the most dangerous thing about stress is that we have become so used to it. Now, don’t get me wrong. Stress is something that will never go away. But the sheer volume of it today – the constant presence of...
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