Mental Toughness for the “New Normal”
Do you ever catch yourself thinking that maybe all of this – this pace of relentless change and uncertainty – is really just temporary? That we simply have to ride it out and, eventually, we’ll go back to the way it used to be. You know, pre-9/11, before the financial meltdown, without the weekly slew of disasters, natural and man-made. Well, enjoy the fantasy because this is the new normal. “The pace of change in our world is speeding up,” ...
Five Habits of Happy High-Achievers
When Shannon Bahrke won bronze in women’s moguls at the 2010 Winter Olympics, in her excitement she “hugged first-place winner Hannah Kearney so tightly that she almost knocked her U.S. teammate over.” Next to them on the podium, however, Canadian skier Jennifer Heil looked crestfallen after taking silver. From our vantage point as a spectator, it might be hard to imagine feeling disappointed at “only” winning a silver medal. On the other hand, we can kind of understand how, after ...
Shift Happens: Six Tips to Ease the Angst of Change
“After the age of 21,” renowned life coach Martha Beck once said at a seminar I attended, “people do everything they can to avoid change.” We all laughed sheepishly, acknowledging that as long as you’re alive, change – whether incremental or momentous – is pretty much unavoidable. Back in the ‘60s, psychologists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe conducted extensive surveys, collecting data to develop the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, which listed the 20 most stressful changes we experience in our ...
