10 Tools to Tame Your Phone
When we’re stuck at home, our phones can be a lifeline to the outside world. Unfortunately, they can also feed our stress. Unplugging now and then is vital, even if it’s not easy. Plenty of apps exist to help limit screen time. But your first line of defense is the...
Protecting Yourself Financially from the Coronavirus
As the entire country is experiencing many trials and tribulations during the worldwide pandemic, protecting you and your finances is vital. Many steps you can take proactively will protect you and your family from a huge financial fall. If you’re not able to pay...
How the Gender Wage Gap is Still Thriving in 2020
The gender pay gap seems to be a thing of the past, to the point that most people don’t believe there is a gap. It’s 2020 after all – we should have moved on by now, right? Wrong. Study after study shows that the gender gap, and even more so with minorities, is...
Mini Meditations to Center and Calm
When you’re stressed, meditation is a great way to center yourself. But what if there’s no time for that? Fortunately, you don’t need a quiet room and a Zen cushion to reap the benefits of meditation. The simple strategies listed below take only a few minutes. They...
Without Unity, We Are Losing Reason
Unfortunately, when the pandemic arrived in Brazil, the estimate was approximately 6,000 lives would be taken through the virus by the first half of April, according to the Brazilian Intelligence Agency. At the time of this blog being written near the end of...
Taking Life One Day at a Time
Globally, we have experienced a dramatic shift. Instead of being required to leave the house for business as usual we are being told to stay at home until further notice. This new-found stillness and seclusion can be overwhelming, but with more time at home...
Earth Day 2020: The Global Effort
One of the most important agreements to save our earth and climate occurred on Earth Day, April 22, 2016, when the Paris Climate Agreement was drafted and world leaders’ signatures were requested by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with the aim of...
Why Are We All Acting So Weird?
It started as a perfectly normal morning—well, as normal as things can get when the whole world has turned sideways. I went to the post office, sanitized my hands, got gas, and sanitized my hands again. Then I decided to grab a coffee at the gas station and...
Making the Shift from Stress to Rest
It’s obvious that so many people are stressed due to the recent outbreak of the coronavirus known as COVID-19. No, it’s not the beer Corona that we add a lime and lemon to and drink at a local tavern with strangers or simply at home amongst friends;...
The Magic of Meraki
Standing on the ocean shore of life, I could always look out over the vast horizon and see my Magical Island of Meraki. Ah, “What is Meraki?” you ask. To me it is one of the most beautiful words in the world. If you are Greek, like me, you know. If...
Job Searching in Uncertain Times
Whether you had already been engaged in an active job search or you’ve just lost your job, I know it’s a terribly stressful time to be unemployed. The basic advice I gave in my related post, Career Planning During the COVID-19 Crisis, holds true: all the same job...
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