What does it mean to live an excellent life? If you're like most people, you might think it's about achieving more, doing more, being more productive. I used to think that too. But today, I'm going to challenge that notion of excellence and share a …
Overview/introduction Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like stress has been in overload mode lately. Maybe you feel the same way. We all feel stressed from time to time, and we all experience stress differently. Stress is a part of life…
Overview/introduction As regular listeners have heard me say more than once, stress is inevitable. But that doesn’t mean that stress can’t be managed. After giving this a lot of thought, it occurred to me that there are three main appro…
Overview/introduction Over the last few episodes I’ve been talking about stress, what causes it and various ways to manage it. Today I want to add anger into the mix. Stress and anger are pretty closely linked in an oddly reciprocal relations…
Stress and the appraisal process There’s no getting around it, life is often stressful. So, it’s useful to understand stress. We all kind of understand what stress is at some level, but what is it exactly? Stress is a psychological and …
[This article was originally published on Medium.] My wife, Tracy, and I moved out to the country a year ago. Since moving to the country and acquiring a horse and two (very funny) goats, I’ve been listening to a lot of country music ……
Recently, I had a wide-ranging, enjoyable conversation with Todd Murat, host of the Toddcast Show. We talked about how I came to be a professor (spoiler: it was a twisty path), the current state of political discourse, the power of thoughts and the …
Today I'm bringing you the first of a new kind of article, which I'm calling 5 Minute Flourishing. These are gonna be short, focused articles. I'll release them in between the regular articles. I'm doing this because I want you to keep flour…
Well, here we are in another new year. Who knows what 2023 will bring? Regardless of what it brings, you can flourish if you see your possibilities, not your limitations. In this article, I explain why this is, and how you shift your mindset to see …
In this article I talk about the very real phenomenon of the holiday blues and offer some suggestions about how you can cope with feelings of loneliness and depression around the holidays. Holiday Season Well, it's the holiday season. Chri…
