Stress, Cortisol, and Your Waistline

by Lisa Nelson Copyright 2008 Do you struggle with extra fat around your midsection?  Excess abdominal fat is not only visually unappealing to some, but it also increases your heart disease risk. What causes abdominal obesity? There are many different reasons your body likes to store fat in the abdomen.  I want to discuss one [...]

Career Change: Four simple steps to support your career transition

“by Annemarie Cross” and (c) 2008 The prospect of making a change in your career focus can be daunting for anyone, particularly if you have been working in the industry/position for a considerable amount of time. You may be interested to learn that in the course of our working lives we can expect to make [...]

Why Eating Breakfast Equals Weight Loss

By Lisa Nelson, RD © 2008 Summary: Don’t have time to eat breakfast?  Don’t feel hungry in the morning?   You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again – breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  There’s just no way around it.  Maybe it’ll be easier to make breakfast a priority if you [...]

The One Decision

By Judith Wright Do you want your life to be a fulfilling, exciting adventure that brings you success in every area—career, relationships, family, and spirituality? Look around. How many of us have great lives—truly great lives—inside and out, at home and at work? Not average, plodding lives; not yearning-for-meaning, marching-in-place lives, but vibrant, extraordinarily satisfying [...]

Work on your People Skills, Work in Harmony

by Heather Johnson   A job is not just a means to an ends; it’s not just how you make your daily bread but also a way of life. Since you’re likely to be spending most of your waking hours in an office or other occupational location, you must love your job or be miserable [...]

Procrastinating Productively

By Sheila Hawkins   With the many demands on our time, it’s no wonder that we procrastinate.  Most of us procrastinate in a destructive manner.  Research shows that people spend most of their time and effort working on activities that have nothing to do with the success of their projects.  It’s the biggest reason that [...]

Obstructive Procrastination

By Sheila Hawkins   Last month we looked at ways to use procrastination to our advantage.  Now we’re going to look at the opposite end of the spectrum; the destructive side of procrastination.   We all procrastinate from time to time for some reason or another and it’s usually with the small things we don’t [...]

5 Reasons You May Be Unhappy at Work

By Heather Johnson We all have our bad days at work and, unfortunately, those bad days can stretch into weeks or months if we aren’t proactive. However, you can’t improve your situation unless you pinpoint what the problem is. While the next logical move may be to change jobs or careers, it is also very [...]

To Breathe or Not to Breathe? That is The Question.

by Lois Grasso Do you ever feel like you’re stuck on an emotional “treadmill to oblivion”? When the mind gets stuck in uncomfortable thoughts and emotions, it’s partly because we have been programmed to breathe shallowly when under stress. The resulting lack of oxygen makes it hard for us to think clearly. We then get [...]

Reduce Stress at Work

© 2005 …. by Doris Helge, Ph.D. The following material was excerpted with permission from the book, Joy on the Job – Over 365 Ways to Create the Joy and Fulfillment You Deserve, by Doris Helge, Ph.D., © 2005, Shimoda Publishing, shimodapub@mindspring.com. Any material from this website that you quote, download, or reprint must include [...]