I’m pleased to let everyone know that a useful book I’ve contributed to, Campus Calm University by Maria Pascucci, has just been published.  The book is part of a nationwide effort by innovative new organization Campus Calm to empower high school and college students to become stress resistant and confident leaders. This generation of teens ...

So everyone’s lamenting the tragic turn our society has taken – economically, politically, socially.   And I agree that things are objectively not as good in America as they were 10 years ago.  But they’re still better than they were during the Civil War, or the Black Plague, or, if you think about it, most periods of human ...

Have you ever noticed that when you spend too much time dwelling on the past, you get depressed about how certain situations played out and what you could have done differently?  And when you are always looking ahead to the future, you get anxious about the unknown? Although I find it hard to do, I am going to try and ...

Anita Bruzzese has an interesting post on mothers’ influence on career success.  Anita cites the work of a psychologist, Stephan Poulter, who has written a new book, The Mother Factor: How Your Mother's Emotional Legacy Impacts Your Life. The book’s thesis is that whether we acknowledge it or not, our mothers leave an indelible impression on ...

A few days ago, I was scheduled to be on a local NPR radio show with one of my biggest and longstanding influencers, Bruce Tulgan.  For those of you who might not know, Bruce is internationally recognized as a leading expert on young people in the workplace and has his own consulting firm, Rainmaker Thinking, that has trained employees in ...

Adrian Savage, an author and a retired business executive, is an older gentleman with some perspective.  He wrote an excellent post on Lifehack about giving yourself the best shot at a good life.  He offers some wonderful lessons for those of us in our twenties and thirties who constantly sabotage our own happiness by allowing ourselves ...