Articles by Eli Bay

Abolish The Debt With Your Eyes Closed

If you get less sleep than you need over a period of time, you begin to accumulate a sleep debt. If you lose one hour of sleep each night for a week, you end up with a sleep debt of seven hours.

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Combating Future Shock

As we move into the twenty-first century, North American business is reeling from the magnitude of extraordinary and unprecedented change. Never before have individuals (or organizations) been asked to adapt as rapidly as those of us living and working in the third millennium....

From Do-Do to Do-Be-Do-Be-Do

When you first awaken, are your feet running before they touch the floor? Is your life a continuous rush from activity to activity and project to project as you furiously seek accomplishments in your life? Does a major part of your identity and confidence come from your ability to get things done? Are you hard on yourself if...

How to Deal with Uncertainty

"The twenty-first century -- when everything is possible and nothing is certain, ..." was how Vaclav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic, described our time. Paradoxically, one of the few certainties of our time is that nothing can be certain anymore....

If You Hate Your Job

A study conducted by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare found that the best predictor of heart disease was not any of the physical risk factors (smoking, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, obesity and diabetes) but rather job dissatisfaction....

Let Go and Flow

Without even bothering to ask for our consent, globalization and technological innovation are rapidly delivering us to a new world....

Lighten Up

George Santyana

Do you know how fast light travels?

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. That's really fast.

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It's Time to Wake Up

We are a technological society. Technology enabled us to rise from upright apes to fly to the moon and send our robot creations to explore other planets. From the club to the lever to the steam engine to the Hubble Telescope, our technology has defined and shaped the human experience....

Remember The Monkey Trap

As part of the incessant need to provide monkeys to research labs around the world, teams of monkey catchers have developed an interesting system to capture live monkeys. While it is still dark, the teams take long-necked heavy ceramic vases to places where monkeys are known to frequent....

Right State = Right Stuff

Creativity and innovation are the driving forces of the new economy. As such, anything that enhances creativity has to be of prime value to both organizations and individuals wishing to thrive in the twenty-first century....

Taming Anxiety

The poet, W. H. Auden, dubbed our time as "the Age of Anxiety". Anxiety is indeed the predominant emotion of our time and there is every indication that as we move further into a post 9/11 world that a general and pervasive anxiety will continue to grip the hearts and minds of growing numbers of people.

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The Secret of Endurance

Society at the beginning of the 21st century is challenging all of us to get our acts together and learn how to cope with the newly emerging world that is taking shape around us.

One of our great challenges is to achieve a sense of balance in a rapidly changing society that is demanding so much of us.

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The Stress Reaction: Flight or Fight

So how do you think about stress? Stress is not an event; it is your reaction to an event. Stress is your body's "fight or flight" instinctive protective system for responding to any perceived threat or challenge.

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