At the beginning of the year, I made the classic New Year’s resolution to “Get in Shape”. And as everyone who’s made that resolution knows, keeping with a new workout program for the first few weeks is easy. The hard part comes in sticking with it month after month as the enthusiasm fades and the […]
That’s the question I’ve been asking myself with the new year upon us. The beginning of a new year is a great time for renewal and laying out your plan of where you’d like to go. In the same way that a ship’s captain lays out the travel plan to avoid storms and reach the […]
I recently heard about a study where they presented an entire box of chocolates in front of people and told them to eat as many as they wanted. When presented with this choice, the average person ate one piece of chocolate. But when the people were presented with only six chocolates and told to eat […]
There is a large part of me that is a doer. I’m not happy each day until I can cross items off my list and feel like I’ve made progress toward a goal. In many ways this is a good thing. It helps me to be productive with my time and make steady progress toward […]
What if I told you that by doing a simple 5-minute test on a child, I could tell you what their likelihood of success in later life will be? Would you believe it and do you know what I’d test? In the 1970s Walter Mischel of Stanford performed a series of tests on four-year-olds. The […]
