The importance of breaks

The creation of positive rituals around your stress and recovery time is likely to be a key to your productivity whether at work or at home. In the early 1980s, psychologist Jim Loehr was trying to figure out the difference between tennis stars and those who played well but didn’t quite make it to the…

Dealing with post-holiday blues

We’re all probably familiar with the feeling: a sense of regret as we contemplate the approaching end of our holiday. Here are a few tips for easing back into your routine. I asked another psychologist who’d recently returned from a Hawaiian holiday what she practices when trying to readjust to reality. Here are our combined…