Questions For You to Answer One of my wishes is to make the Dr. Rob’s Monday Newsletter more interactive. Going forward, I would like to include more of my reader’s thoughts/ideas/resources. To help you to get more involved/connected, I would like to provide some prompts in the way of questions. As the next Leaders Connect Detroit will be a virtual tour of the music scene/history of Detroit, I’d like to know what are your favorite concerts/performances. If you’d like to register for the …
150 Years of Detroit Music Many of us have had the opportunity to come of age during a glorious time of music development. For me, growing up in Detroit in the 60s, I was able to go to the marvelous “Motortown” Review at the Fox Theater where I was able to see in one amazing show the Marvelettes, the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles and Marvin Gaye. Now, you will have the opportunity to learn about and experience …
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 …