Recently, I told a distant relative about the career change I’d made, the book I just released, and a few other things I’ve been up to.  “I would have been too scared to do all that,” she said.  “You must be a pretty courageous person.”
This conversation got me thinking:  am I courageous?  If being courageous [...]

Do you think you need anxiety to get motivated at work?  Several people I talked to recently told me as much.  If they didn’t worry about finishing their project on time, what others might say about their work, and so on, they think they’d never get anything done.  They’d just kick back on the couch, grab [...]

Many of us spend a lot of time fretting over aspects of our lives that might turn out badly in the future.  Maybe it’s the fear that we’ll mess up a project at work, that we won’t be able to pay the bills next month, that we’ll have some type of medical crisis, or something [...]

I often work with people who feel crushed under the weight of their obligations.  They have so much to do, and they’re constantly worrying that it won’t get done.  When I suggest they can calm themselves by changing the way they think, I’m usually met with skepticism.  “Changing how I think won’t make my obligations [...]