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How Your Emotions Can Affect Your Heart

January 25, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Mimi Guarneri, author of the book The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The relationship between emotions, stress and heart disease are becoming clearer and clearer.

 

Mimi Guarneri M.D.:
There have been beautiful studies that have shown and looked at people coming to the emergency room for example, just having had a heart attack. There's a much higher incidence of anger within the proceeding twenty-four hours.
 


Dr. Mimi Guarneri

Why People Complain About Their Workplace - Part 2

January 22, 2013

 

Interview with Ray Fisman, author of the book The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In organizations a common complaint is having to attend so many meetings. We should just do without them.

 

Ray Fisman:
We could do away with meetings is all useful information to travel up and down and across the organization could be conveyed by written reports and spread sheets. Though I would point out you’d be writing a lot more reports and putting together a lot more spread sheets if that were the case.
 


Ray Fisman

Why People Complain About Their Workplace

January 21, 2013

 

Interview with Ray Fisman, author of the book The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You’ve probably worked in a job or been part of an organization that you thought was not run very well.

 

Ray Fisman:
Most people look at their lives and organizations and see nothing but dysfunction and they think about how much better things could be.
 


Ray Fisman

How To Increase Energy & Reduce Stress

January 18, 2013

 

Interview with Jon Gordon, author of the book The 10-Minute Energy Solution

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The next time you're stressed out think about this…

 
Jon Gordon:
It's physiologically impossible to be stressed and thankful at the same time it's the way our brains are wired.

Jon Gordon

How To Change A Habit

January 17, 2013

 

Interview with Jeremy Dean, author of the book Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We all like to think we have control over what we do but try to change a habit and you discover you don’t have the control you think you do. Why?

 

Jeremy Dean:
Habits run mostly in the unconscious. And if you think that maybe 50% of the things that we do every day (and that’s what the studies suggest ) are actually habits then it’s very difficult to have total control over yourself.
 


Jeremy Dean

Sticking With Your Resolution

January 7, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of the book Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Anyone who’s trying to stick to a New Year’s resolution knows how tough it can be. So why is change so hard?

 

Dr. Joe Dispenza:
By the time we’re 35 we reach a certain point in our life where we become a set of memorized behaviors, emotional reactions, beliefs and perceptions that run like a subconscious program.
 


Dr. Joe Dispenza

Habits Of Wealthy People

January 2, 2013

 

Interview with Thomas Corley, CPA, author of the book Rich Habits - The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When you compare wealthy people with people who don’t have money you find that…

 

Thomas Corley, CPA:
Their daily activities are just completely different in many respects and I summarized these difference into what I call 10 common success habits that wealthy people have.
 


Thomas Corley CPA

Your New Year's Resolution

December 31, 2012

 

Interview with Judith Wright, author of the book The One Decision: Make the Single Choice That Will Lead to a Life of More

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Behind every New Year’s resolution is a bigger desire for change in your life.

 

Judith Wright:
Let’s say you want to lose 10lbs, the real question to ask is why?
 


Judith Wright

Neatness Counts

December 14, 2012

 

Interview with David H. Freedman, co-author of the book A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Neatness counts - we've heard that since we were kids and it's imbedded in our brains.

 

David H. Freedman:
Which really goes back to books like The Cat in the Hat, which we read a million times as kids. The Cat in the Hat is a story about two kids left alone in a house that gets messy and they're terrified their Mom is going to come home and not love them anymore because of their messy house.
 


David H. Freedman

When You Worry Too Much - Part 2

December 13, 2012

 

Interview with Kathryn Tristan, author of the book Why Worry?: Stop Coping and Start Living

 

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Mike Carruthers:
One reason people worry a lot is that at some level they think it helps.

 

Kathryn Tristan:
I was raised to think if you worry enough about it it’s not going to happen. But the problem is that’s not really true.
 


Kathryn Tristan

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