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On Earth Day, Reasons for Hope

A joint program between George Mason and Yale universities has been surveying Americans’ perception of climate change since 2008. The latest poll shows that more people than ever are worried

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What Love Looks Like

Yesterday I had the incredible honor of participating in the Women’s March on Washington with my seventeen-year-old daughter, Emily. We started out from Virginia in a packed Metro train.

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Building Resilience

Resilience is the rapidity with which we recover from adversity. Something we’d all like more of, right? So how can you build your resilience? There are many factors that

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How Positivity Helped Build the Panama Canal

At a dinner I attended this week, Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough spoke about the building of the Panama Canal, the topic of his book, The Path Between the Seas.

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Perseverance Pays Off!

I wrote a blog about Diana Nyad after her fourth attempt to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. I thought we could

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Do You Have a Dream?

Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In order to commemorate the anniversary, NBC has launched a campaign asking people to

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4 Ways to Bring Your Life into Better Balance

Leading a balanced life is extremely important for our well-being, but it is something that many of us struggle with. How balanced is your life? Here are some things to

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Finding Good in the Bad

This Sunday is the year anniversary of the shooting in Tucson that killed 6 people and injured 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. What a tragedy! But this

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"I Think I Can"

One of my favorite books growing up was The Little Engine That Could. I just loved repeating with my mother when she read it to me, “I-think-I-can, I-think-I-can, I-think-I-can” as

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Positivity Increases Employee Engagement

Positive employees are engaged in their work and their organizations. When people experience positive emotions they are energetic, confident, and optimistic. As a result, they are internally motivated to pursue

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Build Hope by Setting Goals

Did you know that setting goals is one way of increasing positivity? Hope is a positive emotion about the future. People who are hopeful have goals that they want to

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