Reading Time: 2 minutes The “Eeyore Syndrome” is named after the famously sad little donkey, Eeyore, in the popular Winnie-the-Pooh children’s books. Eeyore walked around with his head hanging down, feeling sorry for himself. Those suffering the Eeyore Syndrome expect the worst and find shifting their attitude difficult. A lack of confidence fuels this pessimism. Positively Persevering Laughter relieves […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes William Shakespeare once said, “Time is very slow for those who want, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who are sad and very short for those who celebrate but for those who love, time is eternal”. The Value of 86,400 seconds Everyday 86,400 seconds are deposited into your life account.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Theodore Roosevelt once said, “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created a moral crisis for policy-makers struggling to choose between “lives” and “livelihoods”, “mortality or poverty” i.e. between mitigating the public health fallout and averting an economic depression. This article is
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In the contemporary world, to be excellent, we have to change, change continually and be able to change quickly. It isn’t enough just to endure. Because external circumstances have shifted so much in recent decades, we may have seen many organizations try to change – and fail. Most organisations are not designed to change, but
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Reading Time: 2 minutes “Never waste the opportunity of a good crisis.” Whatever organization you work in, change is the one thing you can count on. But in the past, change occurred at a predictable and incremental rate. Today, it occurs much more quickly, presenting a challenge for managers. To keep up, managers must learn to be effective change
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Most people want guarantees because they fear the unknown. Some view going down an unexpected or different life or career path as failure. They assert that their fate is predetermined and that they can do little to change their unfortunate circumstances. Change requires courage; not everyone is capable of taking this leap of faith. Changing
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello everyone, I hope you are having a safe and productive week! Some personal news…bear with me as I try to recap what has been one of the most rewarding journeys I could have ever hoped for professionally, personally, and socially. My world turned somewhat upside-down early May when my role (along with many others)
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Note: the below piece is based on a 60-minute research of publically available information and is not my personal opinion regarding the importance or impact of any one particular pandemic. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 is thought to have infected 500 million people globally, or about 27% of the world’s population. The death toll
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Stress is good and bad. A little stress can help people grow. A lot of stress can ruin people. Stress, which is ubiquitous, can be both good and bad. A little stress at the right time can serve as the forced but needed impetus that sparks growth and success – and in prehistoric times, fight-or
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes, despite your efforts, stress “happens anyway.” Co-author Sam Bracken had a difficult childhood, but he turned his life around. He was conceived from rape and his mother “dumped” him at an orphanage when he was four. At age five, a boy who later became his stepbrother lit him on fire. His stepbrother and stepfather
