Whether you work from home, in a cubicle, or at a call center, you likely take a few breaks during the day (rare though they may be).

There’s a story we tell ourselves when we try to improve our lives, our resilience, and our stress levels. It goes like this: I want to change. I want to be different. Everything’s got to go.

Forget “stress management.” Resilience is the buzzword these days, particularly for anyone who cares about optimizing potential, as opposing to just managing it efficiently.

When 11-year old Riley, in Pixar’s summer hit “Inside Out,” has to leave her childhood home in Minnesota and move to a cramped house in San Francisco, her whole life gets turned upside-down—in…

It would be nice to up and leave any time something stressful happened, wouldn’t it? To just slap a Post-it on your computer that says, “Gone. Will be back…eventually.

First appeared on Forbes.com. A colleague of mine is fond of saying, “Work is easy; people are hard.” And it’s so true.

Burnout is an equal opportunity condition. Any job, from selling insurance to answering customer calls all day, can drain you of your calm, optimism, sense of purpose and good mood.

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So you just did something you wished you didn’t. Not huge, but not great. You snapped at your child instead of hearing him out.

Change can be stressful and downright scary.

When your energy for your work is on the wane, your whole life can seem like a drag.

Whether you’re planning a long beach weekend, a trip to the lake, or a staycation, the decision to give your brain a break is something you decide to do, regardless of your itinerary.