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Stress is Not Your Enemy
Tony Schwartz | Mental Needs, Physical Needs | COMMENTS | April 24, 2012
How often do you intentionally push yourself to discomfort?I know that sounds a little nutty, but here's why I ask: Subjecting yourself to stress is the only way to systematically get stronger — physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. And you'll get weaker if you don't.
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Embracing What's Wrong to Get to What's Right
Tony Schwartz | Emotional Needs | 1 COMMENTS | April 17, 2012
It was a tense meeting. I'd gathered our whole team to talk about the fact that we were under very high demand, and people seemed to be fraying at the edges."Is anyone beside me feeling worried you just can't get it all done?" one person began. The floodgates opened. An outpouring of anxiety, distress and complaint followed — much of it aimed at the person in charge, who happened to be me.
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Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
Tony Schwartz | Mindfulness | 4 COMMENTS | April 3, 2012
What do these words have in common? "Savor," "relish," " "luxuriate," "stroll," "muse," "dawdle," "mosey," "meander," and "linger?"We rarely use them, because we rarely do them. We don't have time. We've got so much to do, so many balls to juggle, so many miles to go before we sleep.
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Three Keys to (Much) Better Decisions
Tony Schwartz | Awareness, Triggers, Values | COMMENTS | March 21, 2012
Recently, I came across this startling statistic. Each day, we make an average of 217 food-related decisions. Is it any surprise we so often make poor choices about what we eat?
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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
Tony Schwartz | Mental Needs | COMMENTS | March 14, 2012
Why is it that between 25 and 50 percent of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?It's not just the number of hours we're working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time.
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