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 | Business, Career, Coaching, Finance, Flourish, Inner Strength, Learning, Relationship with Money, Self Confidence
You’ve done your homework, filled out the spreadsheets, and your Financial Balance is anything but. Perhaps the Must Haves, (your minimum contractual financial obligations) are taking a disproportionate chunk of your income. Maybe it’s too much house, car, student or...
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...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Inner Strength, Intelligence, Meditation, Mindfulness, Optimism, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind
Oh no! What a morning! The alarm didn’t go off. I stubbed my toe rushing to the shower, which was cold because that rotten kid used up all the hot water. Again. The coffee machine boiled over, leaving a scorched mess all over the heating plate and me without caffeine....
by MAI Team | Anxiety, Changing our Minds, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Inner Strength, Meditation, Mind/Body Connection, Resilience, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind
What if I told you it was possible to reduce anxiety and stress, improve attention, calmness and reactivity without medication or leaving the comfort of your own home? Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t. Those who practice meditation, particularly with a focus on...