How to Stop the Chatter in Your Head from Making You Miserable A Poem: No Prozac for You Lucy you hang your head whenever you’ve done wrong, yet You rebound from your guilt at the first friendly gesture. A “good girl” is all you need to revive your spirit. No Prozac for you, Lu. After a few minutes with your head buried in your pillow you’re like a new dog, ready to roll over and play again. -Robert Pasick, Ph.D …
The Chatter in Our Heads As a psychologist who practiced cognitive-behavioral therapy for over 40 years, I was excited to recently read The New Yorker article “Can We Control the Voice in Our Head”. It describes fascinating new research about how we talk to ourselves. I was pleased to learn the researcher, Ethan Kross, was one of my colleagues at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kross runs ‘The Emotion and Self-Control Lab’ at the University. He studies a phenomenon we are …
Creating Your Ten Year Vision for Success For the past few months, I have been focusing with you on how to successfully create short term goals. To be most productive in thinking about your short term goals, you will benefit greatly by going through the process of also creating a personal vision for success. I suggest creating a vision for yourself and your loved ones describing how you would like your life to look in 10 years. Imagine you were …
Here are 25 tips on how to achieve your fitness goals for 2021. Thanks to our presenters, Steve Angerman, Britany Affolter-Caine, and Eileen Gordon for creating these tips. At last week’s Leaders Connect, they shared many more ideas on the importance of fitness in our lives. Eileen Gordon gave us a highly inspirational talk on how she used her passion in rowing to help her recover from cancer. Listen to their presentations. Choose realistic and attainable goals. Write them down somewhere they …
As I continue to focus on goals for 2021, today two fitness experts from the Leaders Connect and the Ann Arbor community present their tips on how to start and sustain a fitness program. They will also be the presenters at LeadersConnect Zoom this Friday at 8:30 AM. Sign up HERE. Steve Angerman has lead training programs for walkers, runners, and marathoners for over 30 plus years as a co-founder and leader at Running Fit. Britany Affolter-Caine, PhD, is the …
Last week I held my first yearly seminar on goal setting. Over 40 participants worked collectively and in small groups to start on the process of selecting their goals for 2021. You can view the video HERE. I will be following this up with another workshop on Friday, Feb 5 at 8:30 am. Even if you could not attend the first session, you are welcome at the second event. Throughout my lifetime, I have found goal setting to be one of …