In this book, What Happy People Know , Dan Baker, the head of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch , offers useful information...

So many people are burnt out. They're exhausted, cynical, and not enjoying their lives. And while the amount of work people have to do...

For the last year, every day at around 1pm, I would get a small visitor in my office. "Mommy," she would say, "can you have lunch with...

If you're anything like two of my favorite people in the world, you may be stymied by a confident, emotional, successful person needing a...

I don't know about you, but I struggle with change and transitions. When the season changes, I miss the one that's leaving. When my...

In his oldie-but-goodie 1995 book ‘Supermotivation’ , author Dean Spitzer describes 8 desires which drive our inner motivation. While...

I spent a lot of last year calling my insurance company about a large sum of money they owed me. And every time I called them, the...

When was the last time something came along and fundamentally changed the way you thought about things? Give that question a minute - we...

In my last post, Meet Five of Your Accomplice Saboteurs , you were introduced to The Avoider, The Controller, and the three Hypers:...

In last week's post, The Judge in Your Head , I talked about the universal Saboteur that afflicts us all, the Judge. The Judge spends...

I woke up the other morning and my daughter was sick, which meant she was staying home from school. I work from home and had a four-hour...

Earlier this year I was in the hospital for a week with a double ear infection and meningitis. (If you're offered the opportunity to do...

Tip number eight of eight - use a predictable template when giving feedback. I've learned and taught a lot about feedback over the...

Tip number seven (of the eight ideas I originally shared ) is to prep your feedback before you give it. Now you might be saying, "Kate,...

Tip number six (out of the eight I originally outlined ) is that to make feedback useful, it has to be delivered while there's still time...

Tip number five (out of the eight originally shared ) is to make sure that giving feedback is not a rare occurrence. When we think about...

Imagine you're about to give some unpleasant critical feedback to someone who is definitely going to have a hard time taking it. What's...

Tip number three (out of the eight I originally outlined ) is that to make feedback useful, it needs to be specific and not a vague or...

Let's say that you want to give your direct report some feedback on the meeting they just ran. You have the idea of the behavior you...

When I was acting, I got a lot of feedback that really wasn't helpful. "You're too tall for this role." "We need someone older." "We...