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Guest Post: Tim Sanders

Ron Edmondson

For me, it’s a big day I’m conducting a media tour to support my new book, Today We Are Rich. These powerful chemicals give us feelings of profound joy, calmness and spiritual connection. We get as high as a kite, or gain the internal/chemical feeling of true Richness.

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Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It

Harvard Business Review

With all the media and medical attention on stress and its negative health impacts, it is easy to reach the conclusion that stress is irredeemably bad—something to be avoided as much as possible. We are willing to bet that those times invariably involved some stress or struggle. Stress has many wonderful attributes.

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Women Need Mindfulness Even More than Men Do

Harvard Business Review

Even the media seems to want to “prove” that women are better multitaskers. It is associated with increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol in our bodies. Stress results from tasks not being completed or done well. Research attributes this to both structural and chemical differences in their brains.

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Addicted to Your Smartphone, To-do List or Busyness?

Michael Lee Stallard

While the list of addictions studied included substance addictions (alcohol, eating disorders, mood-altering legal and illegal drugs, and tobacco), it also included process addictions (dependence upon busyness and work, exercise, gambling, online gaming or social media, shopping, love and sex). Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash.

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Be Selfish. Be Very Selfish.

Harvard Business Review

Anger releases neurotransmitter chemicals known as catecholamines that give us a burst of energy. The chemicals that cause these feelings can build up over time, and the result is a whole host of psychosomatic diseases. Take anger, for example. Our heart rate accelerates, our blood pressure rises, and our rate of breathing increases.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

Testosterone, the hormone that helps regulate dominance, confidence, aggression concentration, mood and energy plays a role here as does cortisol, the hormone released in response to stress. This suggests that endocrinal functions that regulate the autonomic central system are actually regulated by the conscious control of stress levels.

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Winners of the Unstuck Contest

CO2

I used social media to market my business along with local coupon companies that offered online coupons for short periods of time. Strategies we used relate to people’s ability to cultivate tone that inspires progress: Run from anxious reactions, since stress literally shrinks the human brain. I had to get creative.