Dr. Siegel has a unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts exciting and easy to understand and here he is explaining that “flip”. Dr. Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the founding co-director [...]

We often think about life balance as a zero sum game. We assume that if we strive in one dimension then we need to make sacrifices in another. But there is a more inspiring way of thinking, which shows us that we don’t have to make trade-offs or certainly not as often as we think. [...]

Being in the zone, experiencing flow, is this awesome state where we feel at our best and perform at our best. In this state we are so fully engaged and absorbed with the task at hand that all else falls away and our performance goes through the roof. Wouldn’t it be great to be able [...]

  Thinking clearly and staying healthy are two key benefits of sleep, still many of us don’t get enough sleep and undercut our chances to perform at our best! Did you know that when you’re sleep deprived you perform worse than a drunk? The next time you tell yourself that you’ll sleep when you’re dead, [...]

  The Holiday season often brings us more time pressures, with additional family and social obligations and activities. So instead of enjoying the holidays we end up stressed out and scramble to juggle it all. This makes me wonder why do we always feel starved for time? It seems that we have all forgotten how [...]

Like any human interaction meetings are filled with non-rational and emotional dynamics. Adding your Emotional Intelligence “tool kit” to your logical and practical tips to run a meeting can make a big difference to your meeting outcome. As Ron Ashkenas articulates in his article The Hidden Side of Meetings, “Managers at every level almost universally [...]

Meditation can help you enhance your emotional intelligence, especially your self- awareness, which is the foundation of EI. Meditation was developed within the framework of religions in the past, but nowadays meditation practices have been taken out of the religious context and their benefits are available to everyone. So how does meditation work? Ever wondered [...]

          Emotions are powerful and drive our decisions and our behaviors. They change us at a cellular level and are transformative. Positive emotions transform our lives for the better by broadening our awareness and by bringing out the best of us. Barbara Fredrickson has spent her career studying positive emotions. She is [...]

What are positive emotions? There is a whole range  — from amusement, to awe, to interest, to gratitude, to inspiration — what they all have in common is that they are reactions to our current circumstances. They aren’t a permanent state; they’re feelings that come and go. That’s true of all emotions, but positive emotions [...]