by MAI Team | Business, Career, Education, Employees, Feedback, Heroes, High Performance, Inner Strength, Leadership, Motivation, Team Performance
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower And just how, exactly, does one do that? It’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it? Chris Lowney, a Jesuit seminarian turned investment...
by MAI Team | Anxiety, Changing our Minds, Coaching, Conflict, Conflicting Ideas, Emergenetics, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Finance, Flourish, Flourishing, Gratitude, Learning, Love, Marriage, Perseverance, Positive Core, Relationship with Money, Strengths, Teamwork, Uncategorized, Values, VIA
When we met again two weeks later, Megan and Michael were both looking a little frayed around the edges. “Honestly!” Megan exploded, as soon as we sat down. “You’d think it was everyone else’s wedding! Michael’s mother has sent us her guest list of 250 people, every...
by MAI Team | Anxiety, Coaching, Feedback, Flourish, High Performance, Perseverance, Willpower
“You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!” ― Stephen R. Covey It’s an interesting paradox. We tend to judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions. At some level, this makes sense. We can’t read others’ minds, so...
by MAI Team | Anxiety, Changing our Minds, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Flourish, High Performance, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Self Confidence, Strengths, Team Dynamics, The Brain Diaries, The Mind
Movie buffs may recall the scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral in which Tom, as best man, gives the speech: Tom: When Bernard told me he was getting engaged to Lydia, I congratulated him because all his other girlfriends were such complete dogs. Although may I say...
by MAI Team | Career, Changing our Minds, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Inner Strength, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Mindfulness, Physical Fitness, Physical Health, Positivity
For the life of him, Jack can’t understand why people are always asking if something is bugging him, or if he is angry. He isn’t, at least, he doesn’t think he is, though come to think of it, he often blows his cork without a lot of warning. One mi...
by MAI Team | Conflict, Conflicting Ideas, Emotional Intelligence, Energy, Feedback, Flourish, Inner Strength, Intelligence, Learning, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Mindfulness, Optimism, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind, Uncategorized
Sue is excited to go to the cocktail party. She knows only a few others who will be attending, but she’s confident she’ll find some interesting people to talk to – she always does! Full of energy and confidence, she has a strong sense of connection with her...
