Use Your Soft Skills To Communicate Effectively Although in some parts of the United States, businesses are starting to open again, COVID-19 is still a threat, and life hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic normalcy. The measures necessary to prevent the spread of the virus create physical distancing that makes effective communication tenuous. Many people are …
The brain reading this article – your brain – is the most complicated structure in the known universe. According to brain scientists, you are blessed with roughly 100 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 others, making your brain a tangled web of nearly 100 trillion connections. I find it amazing that humans marshal those neurons …
My time in quarantine is starting to feel like Groundhog Day, each day repeating itself in an endless loop. Same environment. Same people. Same food. Same view from my window. Last week, I became aware that all this sameness has dulled my senses. During life before COVID-19, my days were stimulating. I alternated time at …
I used to believe the old saying: “It’s better to give than to receive.” A classic, type A personality, I dove into giving with gusto, convincing myself I had to give to everyone who crossed my path. In theory, it sounds selfless—what better way to create a nicer world? In practice, I said “yes” to …
From the time that we are young children, our elders teach us that certainty is security. We are rewarded for knowing the answer that our teachers, parents, friends, and society at large expect. In uncertain times, people gravitate towards those who claim to have answers. It relieves anxiety to have someone confidently declare ownership of …