Seize Your Mornings

We love to start new things every New Year because, in our mind, it gives us a fresh start. Yet, isn’t every morning an equally good fresh start opportunity? I find that no matter how good or disappointing the previous day was, when I wake up every morning, my...

There Are No Shortcuts to Real Change

From 1998 – 2000, the internet promised to change the world. Then in Mar 2000, it all crashed — we thought, the internet was all hype. Turns out, both points of view were wrong. The Internet did change the world, but not the way we had imagined. Just...

Simple Steps to Shift Your State of Mind

Do psychiatrists also get depressed or anxious? The answer, unsurprisingly, is yes. Just because you know how your brain works doesn’t change its working one bit. So when a psychiatrist hears some bad news, his body activates the fight or flight system just like...

Everybody Needs Downtime

Back in the days when I headed a police organization, we had 1,200 armed policemen in our reserves for handling contingencies. These policemen were supposed to frequently undergo a 2-week intensive training in batches of 100. But for decades, this had not been done....