Lifestyle

Unlocking Business Insights: Understanding Financial Statements

Wed, 17 May 2023 10:25:34 -0400

Financial statements serve as a window into the financial health and performance of a business. These documents provide valuable insights into a company's operations, profitability, and overall financial position. Understanding financial statements is crucial for business owners, investors, stakeholders, and anyone involved in decision-making processes related to finance.

The Wellness Triangle: 3 Steps to Sustainable Leadership

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:32:36 -0500

What does being well mean? First, draw a triangle with three equal sides - your wellness triangle. Next, draw a circle in the center and ensure that the circle touches all three sides. At the tip of the triangle, write the word Mind. On the bottom left point, write the word Body. On the bottom right point...

Just Decide Already: A Decision Coach Can Help

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:33:03 -0400

In these tenuous times of economic upheaval, pandemic recovery and social unrest, making big decisions might feel intimidating. Decision making seems to need more reflection as many people take a deeper look at big life decisions. The current environment might be especially daunting for creative professionals, who are...

8 Teas To Sip At Bedtime To Help You Sleep Through The Entire Night

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:46:35 -0400

While nightcaps like alcoholic beverages or a warm glass of milk have some sleep-promoting properties, sleep teas tend to be better for your overall sleep quality. Here are the best kinds of teas for lulling you into a dream state...

4 Tips for Setting Powerful Goals

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:48:31 -0400

Goal setting is a fantastic skill to develop, and how you design your own future. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. If you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose...

Your Best (& Only) Defense Against a Pandemic

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Since January, every scientist and health policy expert has pontificated on the pandemic and how you can defend against contracting. There is only one problem – your best (& only) defense against any pandemic is a good offense. If that sounds like incorporating a sports cliché into a post...

The Best Leadership Skill You Can Develop Right Now

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:05:23 -0500

In trying to help solve a problem that was causing some conflict among my teammates many years ago, I approached my manager with a suggestion. He immediately became irate and told me in response to my suggestion, “I would like to stay home in my pajamas all day and have my paycheck mailed to me, but that's not how life works.” Many years later...

Three Ways Successful Leaders Manage Their Emotions

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:01:30 -0500

We’ve all been there: fuming at the driver who cut us off, panic-stricken at the thought of making a presentation, anxious about starting a new business. The secret to living a happy and successful life is to manage our emotions before they control us, says Leonard Mlodinow in his new book, Emotional. Mlodinow is a...

Are you proficient at each step in the leadership process?

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:58:53 -0500

Here is the four-step leadership process that I use when coaching people on how to be more effective leaders...

Is the 4-Day Work Week Better? Evidence Points to Yes.

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:54:19 -0500

From Japan to Iceland, countries all over the world are investigating the benefits of the four-day work week for improving employee well-being and productivity. In a study published by Autonomy, researchers tracked 2,500 employees who reduced their work week to 35 or 36 hours, but not their pay. The study showed that...

The Quality of Your Life is Determined by the Quality of Your Questions

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:36:56 -0500

This week on SUCCESS Line, I talk to Crystal, a successful real estate agent, graduate of SUCCESS Coaching and author. Like many of us, Crystal’s biggest goal in life is to make an impact on everyone she meets, and she knows that one of the most powerful ways we can do that is to ask questions. But what questions should we ask?...

Robots Need Us More Than We Need Them

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:05:16 -0500

Imagine trying to find a particular image within the National Football League’s historical archive of hundreds of thousands of videos. A single season produces more than 16,320 minutes (some 680 hours) of game footage. If you include coverage of every pregame, halftime, and postgame show, every practice, and every media interview, you have...

How employers can help as workers' mental health bottoms out

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:08:32 -0500

Amid all-time lows in mental health, employers are finding a new mandate to step up efforts to help struggling employees. “After two-plus years of pandemic ambiguity, employee burnout is emerging as the next widespread health crisis, while employers pour more resources and attention into...

3 ways to turn the Great Resignation into a Great Retention moment

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:03:42 -0500

Employees are switching jobs at record numbers. Workforces are also shrinking. Together, these events have created an environment in which business and HR leaders are having to play catch-up. While the roar of the “war for talent” has been heard for decades and tightening talent markets have been experiencing it in bits and pieces...

Is it time for the four-day workweek?

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:00:10 -0500

Again and again over the past several years, the same type of news has emerged from the business realm: a new company has made the switch to the four-day workweek. In 2017, Basecamp blogged about its "Summer Hours," or four-day workweeks between May 1 and August 31. Volt Athletics wrote...

How telehealth could be an equitable 'bridge to care' in a post-pandemic world

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:55:50 -0500

Before COVID-19 struck in the early months of 2020, telehealth solutions had difficulty gaining traction with U.S. patients, both within and outside the context of employer-sponsored health plans. Sources cite a variety of reasons to explain that slow pre-pandemic growth trend. Two of the most important were...

10 Failproof Employee Engagement Ideas

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:48:36 -0500

No matter your specific business, if your employees aren’t engaged, your customers won’t be either and that is going to negatively impact productivity and your bottom line. Employees who are happy and excited about the work they’re doing have an infectious energy that makes people...

How To Avoid Burnout

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:26:38 -0500

Tell us a little bit about yourself? Primarily I’m a catalyst for change through coaching. I find that coaching promotes a multitude of possible changes that open up whole new worlds for my clients. In most cases, I don’t need to specialise, I simply coach effectively. I do help people surmount tremendous obstacles like...

How to Control Your Brain for Optimal Functioning

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:16:34 -0500

When we are preparing for significant events in our careers, we tend to focus on preparation. If we have a big presentation to do, we practice until we are comfortable. If we have an interview for a new job, we research the company and its key players to ensure we have answers to obvious questions. If we have a project deadline...

Holding Court: Leadership Lessons From Rafa Nadal

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:11:47 -0500

I love tennis. Playing or watching, I always want it to be a great match. The Australian Open finals did not disappoint. Both Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty had history on the line. Their opponents—Danil Medvedev and Danielle Collins, respectively—were intent on making history of their own...

'Meals are medicine'

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:12:24 -0500

Sharon Ivers had a total left shoulder replacement one Thursday this spring. She was discharged from the hospital Saturday, and by Tuesday morning, a box of nutritious food had arrived on the doorstep of the friend she was staying with. The box contained...

4 Ways to Incorporate Microbreaks into Your Work-from-Home Routine

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:08:43 -0500

The work we produce hasn’t changed radically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet where and how we work has been transformed—and the results haven’t always been favorable to our mental health. A Gallup poll from fall 2021 revealed that nearly half of American full-time employees worked remotely either some of the time or entirely. Additionally...

The 8 Best Natural Remedies for Acne

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:04:58 -0500

Although most acne cases afflict teens and young adults, pimples can persist long into adulthood. Hormones, stress, genetics, irritating products and medication can all contribute, regardless of your age. If you have acne, you may be tempted to reach for one of the dozens of "natural remedies" to calm the problem rather than visit a doctor. Some do help, but...

Exercise, metabolism, and weight: New research from The Biggest Loser

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:51:57 -0500

The Biggest Loser was a popular reality television show that ran on NBC for over a decade starting in 2004. In it, participants with obesity competed with each other through intense physical challenges and ate a reduced-calorie diet to see who could lose the highest percentage of body weight. Prior findings from studies of The Biggest Loser contestants showed...

Dementia: Midlife chronic conditions linked to increased risk

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:45:06 -0500

In a new study, researchers found a link between increased risk of dementia and multiple chronic conditions during midlife. The paper, which appears in the BMJ, provides scientists with information that might help people reduce their risk of dementia in later life...

A healthy weight can reduce colorectal cancer risk

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:18:30 -0500

Colorectal adenomas that persist and grow for long periods can be a stepping-stone to colorectal cancer, the third leading causeTrusted Source of cancer death in adults in the United States. In a concerning new trend, colon cancer is on the...

Here's How To Be Prepared For Life's Uncertainties With These 5 Insurance Types

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:37:07 -0500

This is why insurance is important. It will assist you in avoiding several challenges you may have to face in the future. No, insurance is not only about life. In fact, there are a variety of insurances that you could choose depending on your specific requirements. Here are some insurance types you should consider...

Win The Employee Retention Battle At The Start Of 2022

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:55:31 -0500

Danni Rush, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Experience Days and Virgin Incentives, explains what employers can do to keep their staff feeling valued amid a period of heightened employee dissatisfaction. Employee retention should be one of, if not the, biggest priority for any business. Although...

Leadership lessons from getting stuck on a mountain

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:51:07 -0500

I just got back from rock climbing in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. It was amazing! One day, I was lead climbing a route that was supposed to be on the easier side of moderate. But at one point, I got off route and followed the wrong line by accident. I ended up on a...

What Leaders Should Focus on in 2022

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:45:43 -0500

A couple of years ago, we all thought we'd be back to normal by now. Trauma and disruption would be behind us, and 2022 would be business as usual. Few of us expected that upheaval would be normal now. It's true that businesses can thrive in turmoil -- earthquakes reveal gold deposits, after all -- but...