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New year, new habits—The value of deep work

Just for fun, I’ve been reading Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple, and that’s got me thinking about changing habits in the New Year.  For those of you who […]

Lighten up: 5 Tips for When Gift Giving is Hard To Do

Sometimes it’s hard to think about “the joy of gift giving” with all the other stresses hovering over us at this time of year.  For myself, there are letters to […]

2 frameworks for changing bad habits (Part I)

…frameworks for changing bad habits. The first comes from Charles Duhigg’s…

5 pointers to build self-trust

this month, I want to give you 5 pointers on a related topic: self-trust. There is well-documented literature on trust in leaders as critical for the success of an organization, in academia and beyond. However, we cannot build trust unless we trust ourselves first. It’s the very first step in building a good relationship with ourselves.

Welcome the New Year with the optimism bias

It’s the New Year, and I for one am celebrating the start of 2016! For my husband, and me, 2015 was somewhat rough. We both had foot surgeries (try keeping […]