My friend Mark is on a quest for personal greatness. “I know I can be a more empowered person—I just don’t know how to do it!” He sighs, then rushes off to the bookstore for the perfect book to transform him from who he is today to the awesome person he envisions for tomorrow. In the six years I’ve known…
Are your habits hijacking your brain’s functionality? While sleep deprivation and other exhausters have an impact on brain efficacy, eating habits have the largest effect on how you boost or deplete your brain activity. With a well-chosen plan to ingest, manage, and maintain the #1 brain fuel, you can enhance how well you remember, learn, concentrate, and behave. According to…
When you think of forgiveness, does it seem easy to offer? Or do you withhold forgiveness as a way of punishing someone who hurt you? It can seem like the person who benefits most from forgiveness is the person receiving it. The truth about forgiveness, however, is just the opposite: Forgiveness is for you. Dr. Margaret Nagib, a clinical psychologist…
We walk into the Latin club the way we always do, almost tripping over ourselves in anticipation, picking up the beat at the first sound of the bongo drums that reverberate from enormous speakers. After ten years of salsa dancing, John is used to the excitement of an empty dance floor and music whose every beat contains the passionate rhythm…
I slouched my 5-foot-8-inch frame into Greg’s office weighing a mere 108 pounds. Power posture? Definitely not. But I had yet to learn about that. For the previous year I’d been battling an undiagnosable illness that had doctors all over Manhattan scratching their heads: An adverse reaction to an antibiotic had catapulted my body into a complete meltdown. With liver,…
Every six months Franny rearranges the furniture in her home. “Just moving the couch from one wall to another can change the whole feel of a room!” she exclaims. “The change in energy makes me more creative, invigorated, and ready to face any challenge.” Franny’s is just one example of how your environment reflects your identity. A business major in…
When I was six my dad got down on our living room floor and placed a twelve-inch-wide string circle in the middle of the room. He filled the circle with a slew of shiny new marbles, then patiently showed me how to curl my index finger into the crook of my thumb and place the “shooter” marble in the pocket…
