Shandi-lee Cox via Compfight We all know great conversations when we find ourselves in one. We find an area of common interest with another human being and the dialogue just flows. But these moments don’t come along as often as we like. With a stranger, we don’t know where to begin. And in a long-term […]
As a father of two toddlers (one 3 ½ years old and one just over 1 ½) I’m often amazed at their capacity for mindfulness. I’ve been saying that mindfulness will be the big wellness trend of the next decade. But it doesn’t come easily to most of us. In an increasingly fast-paced world fraught […]
PC – My Shots@Photography via Compfight As October comes to an end, so too does my season of fun. Every year, from April to October, I spend almost every weekend at the beach in Long Beach, Long Island. My wife and I both surf and play beach volleyball, and we bring our kids, who play […]
Two weeks ago at the Global Spa & Wellness Summit, I had the chance to hear from Dasho Karma Ura, the President of the Center for Bhutan Studies who spoke about their government’s unique approach towards Gross National Happiness. For the last several years, the Kingdom of Bhutan has inspired the world with their unique […]
Longtime readers of my blog will know that I am not a vegetarian (see Confessions of a Carnivore,) but that I believe in both the physical and moral benefits of eating less meat (see On Eating Animals and Exercising Your Moral Muscles.) One of the most compelling voices in this area is Sandra Higgins, an Irish […]
I recently had the opportunity to see His Holiness the Dalai Lama speak as our keynote speaker at the Global Spa & Wellness Summit that took place in New Delhi just over a week ago. To be completely honest, I wasn’t very excited about seeing the Dalai Lama. People who know me are surprised by […]
I just returned from India, where I had the opportunity to attend the Global Spa and Wellness Summit in Delhi, which kicked off with a congress on the rise of Wellness Tourism. The easiest way to define wellness tourism is by differentiating it from medical tourism. Medical tourism involves people traveling to a destination in […]
I arrived to India today in preparation for the Global Spa & Wellness Summit taking place in Gurgaon this weekend. Interestingly, tomorrow, the India government shuts down. But unlike the US, this is not because the politicians have failed to reconcile their differences; it is due to a national holiday in celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s […]
“You keep using that word . . . I do not think it means what you think it means.” –Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride Have you ever played “Taboo?” It’s a fun game by Hasbro that forces participants to describe something without using many of the words that people might commonly use to describe it. […]
slworking2 via Compfight The way we typically talk and think about employee engagement may be all wrong. We tend to classify workers into categories: they are either engaged or not engaged. For example, an oft-cited Gallup poll identifies 7 out of 10 workers as being either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” meaning they are “emotionally […]
