Category Archives: Focus
Change Your Questions, Change Your Results Fast
You get more of what you ask questions about. Ask about what’s not working or needs to be fixed and you learn about what’s broken. Ask about what’s best and how to create more of it, and you get more of it. In 1985, David Cooperrider, a budding thought leader in the positive psychology and…

Don’t Fall Off The Horse! How to Keep Vacations and Other Disruptions From Killing Your Routines
Have you ever come back from vacation feeling like you need a vacation more than ever? Join the club! While the busy-ness of a workday may feel overwhelming at times, it does impose time constraints and deadlines that so many of us need or use to support our routines. And then you take a vacation, …

Why Your Brain Hates New Year’s Resolutions and What to Do
Every year during the holidays, I take stock of my accomplishments in the year that’s ending and set new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. Do you do that, too? New Year’s offers a pardon for goals not fully met, and a chance to resolve to do better next year. But when your usual busy-ness sets back in, following through on big goals and…