Life of E's

You can find yourself at any given point in your life either doing GRRReat or not doing so great. In whatever way you need to make that determination for yourself, please go ahead and do so right now. If you find you are doing GRRReat, then feel free to come back and finish reading the [...]

Tags: compare, emotion, feelings, happy, others, positive, stressed

Are there any parts of your life that you would describe as 'radically distinctive'? Really, ask and answer the question:    "What is the most radically distinctive part of my life?"   I am going to have you make a list of all the ways that your life is extraordinary, remarkable, noteworthy, unique, unusual, striking, [...]

Tags: attitude, awareness, feelings, grateful, life, outlook, positive, thoughts, unique

My guess is that nearly everyone reading this has an egg carton in the refrigerator (unless you are a full-on vegan). Even if you currently don't have any eggs in the fridge, you have: held an egg cracked an egg looked at an egg, and maybe even pondered eggs – and their shells. Today, I [...]

Tags: clutter, distractions, energy, focus, just whelmed, positive, Productivity, stress, success

Can you change some of the events that are currently stressing you out?  Are there others over which you really have no control or even any influence?   Hmmm…it might be time to consider what belongs in the various categories for you. To help you visualize the idea we’re talking about in this article, just draw a [...]

Tags: energy, focus, positive, Productivity, stress, success, tips

Do you radiate positive energy?  Does it have an impact on others?  Are you unsure about what qualities you may want to be radiating out to others? Winston Churchill said: “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” There are people you know (and I know) who radiate everything [...]

Tags: energy, focus, positive, success, tips

As a leader, do you want to be considered a lion – or a sheep? I think I know the answer, but in case you need any additional encouragement, consider these characteristics of sheep: 1. Timid, fearful, easily panicked Hmm…are these words that you want to be used to describe you? Timidity in the face [...]

Tags: confidence, fear, leadership, positive, skills, stress, weakness

Write down a problem that you have been trying to deal with (or that you’ve ignored) in your business. I’ll wait. OK. I’ll assume you have that written down. Now, change the wording of that problem into a question. I’ll wait. OK. I will assume that you now have a great question posed. You want [...]

Tags: answers, creativity, overwhelm, overwhelmed, positive, problems, questions, solutions, stress

Student evaluations are a part of every faculty member’s life. Some consider them to be a positive part of the academic life and others dismiss them as a meaningless exercise (or even worse, as a detriment to good teaching). You might as well know that I come down on the side of student evaluations being [...]

Tags: positive, Professors, students, teachers, Teaching, tips, work

How can you stay in the present (mentally) – or get to the present? Here are 5 strategies: Breathe. The idea is that you breathe in. Then you breathe out. This helps you to get centered – and somewhere I read that the space between breathing in and breathing out – that’s the present. So [...]

Tags: distractions, energy, focus, positive, Productivity, success, tips

Let us say that you have decided to close the door to negative people (figuratively, of course). What is tough about this decision is that sometimes the negative people work in our offices (or live in our homes or are related to us in some way). Deciding to “close the door” on the people who [...]

Tags: focus, positive, Productivity, success, tips