Attitude

As 2010 prepares to pack it in and move it out to make room for a new year, take some time to reflect on your accomplishments.

As a health and wellness promoter, you probably don’t often take a step back to admire the fruits of your labor. It can even seem at times that your efforts … Continue Reading »

Monday mornings get a bad rap.

After two full days of relaxation, many people return to work not recharged and ready to take on a new week but dragging, drained, or even depressed.

Those so-called Monday blues can set the tone for the entire office and affect the quality of your employees’ work.

How do your staff members … Continue Reading »

Do you tend to dismiss the numbers on the scale or turn a blind eye to your increasingly tight-fitting jeans?

If you’re like many people, you might be living in denial about your need to lose weight.

According to new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, many obese people labor under potentially dangerous misperceptions … Continue Reading »

Peer pressure doesn’t end when adolescence does.

The influence of friends, family, and coworkers on individuals is getting a closer look thanks to something called “network science.”

This study of social networks might shed some light on how relationships can promote good health.

It’s logical that if friends can lead each other to engage in negative behaviors, … Continue Reading »

If your daily to-do’s keep you hopping, consider yourself lucky.

New research shows that busy people are happier than those whose days leave them with too much idle time.

Keeping busy is a natural inclination, suggest the research authors, and most people will choose busyness over the alternative when given a choice.

While people dread … Continue Reading »

As inevitable as death and taxes, stress is something we all have in common.

Despite its reputation, stress is not always a bad thing: It can serve as a motivator, keeping us from simply stewing over a problem and instead doing something to solve it.

On the other hand is the kind of stress that causes real … Continue Reading »

Is your glass half-empty? Changing that negative perspective can be good for you.

Optimists (who see that same glass as being half-full) have quite a few advantages over their pessimistic counterparts.

Their happy-go-lucky attitude helps them meet life’s challenges head-on, be more resilient when disaster does strike, and be happier in general.

Pessimists expect the … Continue Reading »

Among any given group of people, there are bound to be differences of opinion and the occasional personality clash.

With all the dynamics at play in the average office environment, it can be a setting ripe for the development of interpersonal conflicts.

Conflict may spring from two incompatible personalities or from something easier to mediate … Continue Reading »

Nature is good for the soul, and exercise is good for the body. Combining the two yields a workout that does double-duty.

New research shows that spending just five minutes a day doing physical activity in a natural setting benefits mental health.

Whether you get your natural workout gardening in your own backyard, walking a … Continue Reading »

Are your employees phoning it in?

It’s an important thing to know: Productivity takes a hit when workers are disengaged, or emotionally and psychologically disconnected from their jobs and workplaces.

It makes sense that engaged workers exhibit better work performance than those who are disengaged, as studies have repeatedly shown to be true. But recently, … Continue Reading »