Raise your hand if these scenarios sound familiar: A) You wake up, overwhelmed before your feet hit the floor.

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com.

  We’re all drawn to the “10 Things Successful People Do” lists. For good reason—we’re dying to know what we’re doing wrong, and what we should do instead.

  When poet, memoirist, screenwriter, film director, jazz singer, dancer, professor, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died last week at the age of 86, I reflected on two thoughts.

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com. A few weeks ago I attended Arianna Huffington’s “Thrive” event in New York City.

  You know the rush that comes when you witness an artist do something excellent? To be in the presence of skill so great it becomes joy is, well, it’s transcendent.

  Time magazine recently wrote up a study conducted and funded by the Max Planck Institute in which researchers determined that stress is contagious (here’s their write-up).

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com. As an entrepreneur, I pride myself on my move-fast-take-no-prisoners approach to work.

  For the past four years, Everest College in Washington has conducted a “Work Stress Survey” to find out what weighs most on Americans about their jobs.

  Something happens at this point in the year: the winter finally releases its frigid death grip, trees sprout their first tender leaves, the world softens and warms.

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com.

  One of the biggest takeaways I got from attending Arianna Huffington’s “Thrive” event in New York City last month was this: Everyone knows they’re stressed and knows they must do someth…