Description: The author argues that sleep is an effective way to improve to cognitive functioning; enhance memory, creativity and executive function; as well as attain optimal health.

Description: This article is the first of three parts in helping you to move forward when your career growth seems to be stalled. In this part, help you discover WHY your career has slowed and then move on to the WHAT and HOW in parts 2 and 3.

Description: To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it's important to understand five key principles of influence. Principle #5: A person will more likely be influenced if you help them get to the heart of the matter.

Description: Emotional Intelligence: Why you need it, and how you can increase it

Description: Happiness and success in life require a certain amount of grit - the ability to keep moving forward. We even have the ability to choose to let our trials result in growth - Post Traumatic Growth. What doesn't kill us can make us stronger. Seeing is not believing, but rather believing is seeing!

Description: No matter what you do, you are in sales in some way. The word, "sales" or "selling" brings up negative connotations for many people. It may be helpful to think of it as "influence". Whether you're a sales professional, coach, consultant or executive - there are key stakeholders in your world you need to influence. To persuade successfully and non-manipulatively, it's important to understand five key principles of influence. Principle #3 is covered here.

Description: Article about positive psychology

Description: Great lessons come from bad experiences. This is a story of how I learned the importance of influence after a difficult relationship with my supervisor.

Description: Latest in a series of articles adapting Michael Carroll's "Awake at Work" slogans on Buddhist philosophy for the working world to actuarial practice.

Description: This article is about positive psychology and making sure to fill other's buckets.