What’s Your Story? Bar Talk with Eric Bartosz
Our identity, how we truly see and think about ourselves, is a guiding force in our conscious and subconscious mind and forms the plotline of our life’s narrative.
Our identity, how we truly see and think about ourselves, is a guiding force in our conscious and subconscious mind and forms the plotline of our life’s narrative.
Eric shares his short list of suggestions to help with the 'chart toppers' of what causes the most anxiety during the holiday season.
Despite all the attention it's received in recent months, many Americans still know little about ChatGPT, an OpenAI chatbot that has the potential to revolutionize how we learn, work and even achieve our fitness goals.
Too often, we look back at the ‘good old days’ with fond recollections and the realization that we didn’t fully appreciate how special the moments were until they were gone. It doesn’t have to be this way; we can train ourselves to recognize the magic of ordinary life while it unfolds in real-time.
When we build our mindfulness skills of being present in the present, we are able to enjoy the habit of being singularly focused on the most important thing at that particular time.
Habits are very sticky. Once established, the brain wants to continue to run its learned program. This stickiness is why we run into trouble when it comes time to make changes and turn over a new leaf in areas we are not happy with. This is where micro-habits can be an enormously powerful tool in selectively re-writing the code that we have slowly and steadily programmed into our brains.
Reducing the risk of illness, heart problems and car accidents are all solid reasons for us to get more sleep, but it’s also essential to look at the superpowers we can tap into by getting a healthy amount of sleep.
In this edition of the EQ series Eric examines the final component of EQ, Relationship Management, which draws on abilities from the first three skills.
Social awareness can be improved by becoming an active observer, columnist Eric Bartosz writes. To work on improving yours, begin by thinking about one of your recent conversations and try to be as objective as possible in determining how focused you were on what the person was saying.