Financial Wellness and Workplace Wellness Go Hand in Hand
Financial stress impacts every other area of life. For example, feelings of insecurity surrounding money leads to constant concern and mental stress. In addition, poor health can result from ongoing financial worry. (1)
Three Essential Steps to Keep Lifestyle Creep at Bay
Imagine you get a big raise at work or a new job with better pay. As your income reaches a new higher level, what might your instinct be on how to spend it?
Maybe you want to move into a bigger place or drive a better car. Perhaps your […]
How Teamwork Makes Innovation Possible
A group can accomplish more than an individual. This is self-evident when it comes to building something tangible such as a house or a website. Many hands make light work, as the saying goes.
When it comes to generating new ideas or having a spark […]
Twelve Things You Should Do to Be Well
We all come into this world with a set of inborn desires.
What motivates each of us can vary, but many of our basic desires are based on genetics and evolutionary survival instincts. The need to be safe or free of pain are therefore universal impulses to which we […]
How Emotional Intelligence Can Make You Successful at Work
We don’t become robots when we step into the workplace.
While there are many ways we may behave differently in the professional environment than outside of work, we are still emotional beings. In fact, there is no way to check our […]
Three Steps to Becoming a Better Listener
Being a good listener is an art. Often it seems like a lost art in our busy, fast-paced culture.
In part, this is due to the way our brains work. While the average person speaks at a rate of 125 words per minute, our brains have the mental capacity […]
Five Ways to Improve Your Mental Health at Work
When someone is not feeling mentally healthy, everything else in life suffers. This is just as true on the job as in any other area of life.
The CDC reports that 1 in 5 Americans experience mental illness and 71% of people feel stressed. (
How to Take the Stress out of Performance Reviews
Few things at work are as anxiety-producing as sitting down with the boss to hear their feedback on your performance for the year.
Anxiety at work has been shown have a negative influence on overall health and […]
Don’t Let Your Job Lead to Burnout
In a healthy job situation, we have value as members of the team. In fact, our work is challenging but rewarding, and we feel in control of our career direction.
Truly, this is the ideal situation and the type of work […]