Do a brain reboot and use breathing to restore your focus. Try taking a deep inhalation breath, pushing out your navel, and then powerfully expelling the air by slightly bringing in your stomach. Repeat this breath five to seven times and observe how the tension and mental chatter in your mind dissipates.Another breath that also short circuits the mental chatter is to place your tongue on the roof of your mouth and blow out as if you were blowing out candles on a birthday cake. As you blow out, count to seven. You can now regain your focus. To get my full list of 99 Essential tips on productivity click here now: https://lnkd.in/epuxvYe https://lnkd.in/eadpKB7 …see more

What do you think: Was it wrong for a publicly damaging tweet to include an email sender's full name?

Are psychedelic retreats a fast track to better mental health? Here’s an excellent read if you’ve ever wondered about the magic in mushrooms.

During a May Day demonstration in Berlin, a German artist named Simon Weckert noticed that Google Maps showed a massive traffic jam on a street that had no cars on it. He got an idea that tricked Google Maps into believing that the empty street was experiencing a traffic jam. Think about this... …see more

Tomorrow it's official: Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At Risk Students (Columbia Teachers College Press) is being released for sale. Visit press website or Amazon or www.breakawaylearners.com . Excited that the book and its new framework -- lasticity -- will be available for educators, policymakers, politicians, leaders, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists, the military and law enforcement. Look forward to many discussions/ conversations and debates about the book and the future of education across our nation and abroad. …see more

Optimists earn more money, have better relationships, and live longer, so don’t be pessimistic about building your optimism muscle. Here’s how...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A Tale of Two CEOs... Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is donating $1 billion—28% of his net worth—to COVID-19 relief. Dorsey will also fund universal basic income and women’s health and education, issues he believes address the world’s long-term existential problems. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has pledged $100 million of his $122 billion fortune (0.08%?) to COVID-19, and believes the solution to the world’s problems is to fly to the moon. …see more

The go-to #socialmedia platform for recruiters is LinkedIn, right? Not so fast. New data reveals that 37% of recruiters now use Instagram to search for the perfect candidate. #hiring #KellyeMedia

At a time when so much is uncertain in a threatening way, let’s embrace the benign chaos that is Zoom.

The #payroll system has long been in need of an update, since it’s technologically possible not to make workers wait two weeks for money they've already earned. Ceridian CEO David Ossip told me in a recent conversation that the global health crisis has pushed the issue into the forefront and what drove Ceridian to develop its Dayforce Wallet to make it easier for customers to be paid instantly, instead of in arrears. It's obviously a better deal for workers, but it is also a much smarter economic move for the firms that employ them. Here’s why. …see more

If there's one thing we need oodles of during this pandemic, it's patience. I really enjoyed this deep dive into the science of patience that includes some practical strategies on how you can strengthen this critical mental muscle.

Folk tales may be emotionally satisfying, but in this case, an unscientific narrative is guaranteed to be worse for everyone you love (and everyone else too).

Prescriptions for anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs that have both side-effect and dependency risks are up significantly. Exercise would be so much better as first-line pandemic therapy.

Please read this piece and listen to the music --- again and again. There are lessons for leaders here --- about mistake making and how to acknowledge mistakes with grace and understanding. How Does It Feel

"Strength may be even more fundamental to our well-being than we already expect, since gaining it involves and alters some of the most ancient components of our central nervous system." - Gretchen Reynolds

Please send me your ideas about how to make video chatting less exhausting. Help make #ZoomFatigue less of an issue.

On today's all-new episode of #ThinkAboutThis , Ross and I chat with Chris Brandt , CMO of Chipotle Mexican Grill , about the organization’s billion dollar digital business and how they made it happen. Plus, we get the answer to the most pressing Chipotle question: Why is Guacamole extra? …see more

Have you taken a Master Class course? I’ve taken a few and really enjoyed David Sedaris’s writing class. Bobbi Brown’s makeup class, not so much.

Amazon  Pay’s GM and VP tells me what he enjoyed most about the winning entries in the 2018 PYMNTS Voice Challenge - and why #Alexa will just say no to ads.

What does the birth of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins last July have to do with the string of horrible weather the world has had ever since? About as much as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple’s success has had on middle class income inequality — but wouldn’t if they were broken up. That’s a claim that entrepreneur and NYU professor, Scott Galloway, lays out in his book and new 7,000-word Esquire magazine article. Here are four key points — and only 3,000 words — to push back. …see more