24 Jan The Psychology of Fun, Play & Full Engagement
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In this fast-paced world, you want to learn not only to control negative stress but, how to renew and recharge. Fun and play is the answer....
10 Dec THE ILLUSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Posted at 19:19h in James Mapes Blog
It is a natural assumption that the choices we make are guided by some external force or are conscious acts of will. However, there are powerful, unconscious forces within us at work....
21 Nov Master The Holidays
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Follow these five strategies to Master the Holidays. I wish you a very happy, healthy, loving and joyous holiday season. ...
06 Nov Let Go and Latch On
When was the last time you worked on not caring? Brad Faxon, one of golf’s best putters, was on the practice green once when someone asked what he was working on. A new grip perhaps? A new way to strike the ball? Maybe trying...
21 Oct THE ILLUSION OF FAILURE
Posted at 00:58h in James Mapes Blog
Failure is the one fear that always puts the brakes on creativity, innovation, risk taking, growth, and productivity, yet most of us have been programmed from our earliest years to be afraid of failure. The person who ...
25 Sep Your Tool for Truth – Pay Attention to your Body
Posted at 16:23h in James Mapes Blog
If you believe that most of your problems are out of your control, you are voluntarily giving up your personal power and choosing to live in a comfort zone. However, consider...
11 Sep Self Esteem or Other Esteem? by Mel Schwartz
I have come to believe that the way the term self-esteem is used is actually a misnomer. The first half of the expression, self, would seem to indicate that esteem, the second half of the expression, is derived from one’s self. ...
19 Aug THE GAME OF TRIVIA & THE POWER OF CROWDSOURCING
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Sometimes there is a huge payoff when I do something that propels me out of my comfort zone. You might interpret this act as taking a huge risk, like jumping out of a plane, walking a high wire or telling your boss that he,...
07 Aug 21 DAYS: RECHARGED, REENERGIZED BUT NOT UNPLUGGED
Posted at 17:05h in James Mapes Blog
My wife and I have wanted to take a Norwegian Cruise on Seabourn for seven years. In spite of our busy career schedules, we decided with full awareness that life is unpredictable and ...
25 Jul Power of Paradigms: Rethink you thinking
Posted at 13:22h in James Mapes Blog
Thomas S. Kuhn introduced the concept of paradigms to the scientific world twenty-five years ago in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn, a scientific historian, considered paradigms a whole new way of looking at and predicting possible outcomes. He wrote that ...