“Working hard to manage weaknesses, while sometimes necessary, will only help us prevent failure. It will not help us reach excellence.” Martin Seligman Working with strengths is powerful. People who use their strengths daily are happier and more productive. Using your strengths adds meaning to work by bringing in your own values. When you engage…
Dynamic Balance for Well-Being
There is a lot of talk about work-life balance and a question of whether such a thing should even be discussed; isn’t work part of life? With burnout, you may be feeling as if all there is, is work, work at the office, work in the clinic, work at home, work in planning and running…
3 ?s, to Review and Plan for the New
Look Back with Appreciation and Forward with Anticipation Start the New Year with a renewed appreciation of where you have been and where you want to go. The beginning of a New Year often leads one to reflect a bit on what came before and think about the future. With busy healthcare practices there may…
3 Ways to Connect with Your Courage
When you’re feeling exhausted, disconnected and like you have little to offer, courage may not be what is on your mind, yet it is one way to get back to well-being. Courage allows you to hear your inner voice and then speak up, in words or actions, for what you need and what will lead…
Focus on Your Strengths
Human brains “are like Velcro for the negative and Teflon for the Positive.”* If you’re a nurse or physician, you’ve been trained to look for pathology, what’s not right and what else appears with this sign and symptom that is beyond normal limits. This perspective of looking for what’s wrong often carries over to your…
