Less Stress, More Fun

Sometimes life is super busy.

And sometimes we’re surprised by quiet periods in one or more areas of our life. 

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about 3 suggestions for managing the stress of “not enough to do” compared to the stress of “too much to do” 

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Everything has a cycle that includes beginnings and endings. Sometimes in life, it seems as though we face a lot of endings. This episode is for those of you who might love a fresh, shiny new beginning yet wonder how to gracefully navigate endings whether expected, foreseen, and abrupt.

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• Seeing endings as the natural autumn and winter of our lives
• Different types of grief
• How to avoid minimizing our loss “just because” it doesn’t seem like a big loss
• How to support yourself and others who may be preparing for or navigating endings

Resources mentioned:

• “Micro-Losses: How our brains might be robbing us of our ability to grieve” (Daniel Juday & Dr. David Hartman YouTube)
• “Types of Grief: Yes, there's more than one” (What’s Your Grief)
• “Grief” (Cleveland Clinic)
• “Grief, Bereavement, and Coping With Loss” (National Library of Medicine)

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Do you make decisions easily? If you’re like most people, the answer is “it depends.” Will you decide to brush your teeth today? Where will you go for dinner with your family? When is it time to make a career change? Life is a series of decisions, and the impacts of those decisions vary widely. 

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• What I observe from individuals around the world around decision making
• The attributes of a well-made decision, including when to get guidance from others
• The ways you can support your decision making process, including dealing with sadness for the road not traveled

Resources mentioned:

• “How I overcame decision paralysis” (Mary Steffel TEDxNortheasternU)
• “The Paradox of Choice” (Decision Lab)
• “Do Our Choices Tell Us Who We Are? It Depends on How Easy or Difficult They Were to Make” (M. Steffel, Journal of Consumer Psychology)
• “How to make stress-free decisions” (Less Stress, More Fun podcast episode 14)
• “The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain” (Herculano-Houzel S, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

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Do you love to get lost along the side roads and unexplored alleys of life? Or do you like to go from A to B with the least muss and fuss? Today we’ll talk about how to embrace life’s detours the “Less Stress, More Fun” way. 

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• My personal experience with predictability and detours
• How detours are the norm, the rule rather than the exception
• How to embrace your detours to improve your relationship to yourself

Resources mentioned:

• “Lessons From Detours” (TEDx, Jane Philpott)
• “A Millennial's Road to Success... Detours Ahead” (TEDx, Christine Eliason)
• “Why You Shouldn't Stick to the "Plan" (Thano Chaltas, TEDxBrownU)
• “Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World” (HBR.org)

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Today’s podcast is a fun and delicious metaphor to describe choosing focus and then living into that focus. I hope you are inspired to eat the enchilada, whatever that ends up meaning for you.

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• The value of choosing 1 thing you love and want to bring to life in the world
• How to choose your “enchilada”
• Eating the enchilada even when you’re just sick of enchiladas
• Knowing when your season of eating the enchilada is over and it’s time to move on to pad thai…or something like that. 

Resources mentioned:

• “How Focusing on Superordinate Goals Motivates Broad, Long-Term Goal Pursuit: A Theoretical Perspective” (Frontiers in Psychology, NLM)
• “Focus: The Ultimate Guide on How to Improve Focus and Concentration” (James Clear)
• “Theory Of Constraints (TOC)” (Lean Production)
• Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi Chinese Proficiency Test (Wikipedia)
• “The power of focus: Why you should tackle one goal at a time” (Get Rich Slowly)
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What is “good” work? Do you love your work? Let’s explore a few bold ideas about what would make work more “good” for all. 

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• Why I believe good work is more important than ever
• Good work on various levels of society
• How you can connect to your best work and amplify the good work that can be done in your community

Resources mentioned:

• Definitions of “manifest” and “manifesto” (Merriam-Webster)
• “The Happy Manifesto: 10 Steps to a Great Workplace” (free book, too!)

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The decision of whether or not to work on vacation can cause people a lot of stress and really minimize the fun of their time away from the office. Let’s see what we can do to flip that script so you have less stress and a lot more fun!

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• Current information about the “work on vacation” cultural conversation
• Understanding why you might even be asking this question
• Resources that help you make the right decision for yourself and your fellow travelers

Resources mentioned:

• “If your employees are working on vacation, your company might be in trouble” (Fast Company)
• “Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously.” (Harvard Business Review)
• “How to Minimize Stress Before, During, and After Your Vacation” (Harvard Business Review)
• “Vacation Stress? You're Not Alone” (Psychology Today)
• “Why are vacations so stressful?” (University of Richmond)
• “How to Stop Work Anxiety From Sabotaging Your Vacation” (NY Times)

Thanks for listening!

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What do you look at to see the reflection of your personality? Let’s talk about this fun way to manage your stress and have a lot more fun.

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• The concept of mirrors in personality development
• Who and what we choose to mirror our world
• How mirroring can increase stress
• How to have more fun using intentional mirroring

Resources mentioned:

• “The empathy device” (Seth Godin’s blog April 18, 2023)
• “The Mirror Principle: Shaping Your Experience, Shaping Your Self” (Forbes June 2015)

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Do you know your kids? Your manager? Your partner? Your best friend? 

Are you sure about that? It’s fun to revisit our perceptions of others to see what we can learn when we look at the world with a beginner’s mind or the eyes of a “stranger.”

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• How we form ideas about other people
• What happens when we fail to update our assumptions
• How to open up to more curiosity about others and, by association, ourselves

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Uh, oh! There's an elephant in the room! A problem that needs to be addressed. A conversation that’s growing long, long overdue. 

What do you want to do about it? 

Fight?

Run away?

Shoo the elephant out in hopes that it will run away?

Or will you ride that magnificent beast?

In this week’s podcast episode, I talk about:

• Why some people avoid what is labeled “conflict”
• Examples of elephants that might be in the rooms of your life
• What it means to ride the elephant

Resources mentioned:

• Follow Your Feel Good, the online home of the magical Sarah Seidelmann, MD
• “3 Types of Conflict and How to Address Them” (Harvard Program on Negotiation)
• “Elephant in the room” (Wikipedia)

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