There are a lot of emotions with a necessary place in our lives. In my opinion, guilt isn’t one of them.
For instance, what if your husband forgets your anniversary? Would you rather see him spend all his energy feeling guilty, or would you rather he gave you a genuine apology, spent five minutes looking suitably […]

As I was reading a recent article in The New York Times (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/01/news/girls.php) on the “amazing” girls of Newton North High School outside Boston, it became obvious what exactly we’re teaching many of our daughters. I’ll give you a hint – it’s not just calculus.
In the article, writer Sara Rimer talked about these girls who […]

Entrepreneurial women step through the multitasking doorway on a regular basis. We show up to our work, our sick children, our deadlines and our promises to ourselves- all in a typical day. There are times we truly cannot see an alternative to multitasking. But if we routinely auto-pilot into multitasking, we may find that we’ve […]

So they’re finally figuring it out. Recently, a number of articles have come out about the downsides of multitasking. Seems they’ve found that that multitasking isn’t very efficient for the brain and actually hampers performance. “The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking […]