Companies are laying people off. Every day it seems like I read about a new layoff. And if you’ve spent any amount of time on LinkedIn in the past months surely you’ve read about them too. Even before these layoffs started happening in mass people were experiencing anxiety and loneliness…

Maybe you’ve read about Screenless Sundays, a practice I started years ago that resulted in so much health, peace, calm. Long before I started Screenless Sundays I changed my iPhone lock screen photo to this… A colleague of mine at the time (shoutout to Alrik) wore a watch I fancied…a…

Last year with the encouragement and support of the wonderful dental team extraordinaire at Bunek Dental (shout out to Sabiha S. Bunek) in Ann Arbor, I started Invisalign. I had no problem with my teeth aesthetically. They were straight, white, and I loved them and my smile. What I learned…

Just like we have closets filled with clothes and things we have a closet filled with social media apps, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. Twitter has been in my closet for well over a decade and over the years I’ve worn it less and less, yet it still stuck…

Recently I was encouraged to set some SMART goals for my business, and as someone who actually has a spreadsheet with my goals that I review each month, I took on this assignment with joy. As a quick recap SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time bound. As…

Gas prices. The housing market. Long lines. Traffic. Slow walkers. Groups of people taking up all the space walking on the sidewalk. There’s plenty to complain about, but what do complaints really do? …

These days/months/years it has been very difficult to escape learning about what’s happening around the world — the good, bad and ugly — and mostly the bad and ugly, because, let’s face it, those are the stories that get eyeballs and paying advertisers love eyeballs. Reading about deaths from a…

One of our Core 4 principles at Improve is to “take everything as a gift”. In Tina Fey’s book Bossypants she says “there are no mistakes, only opportunities” inspired by this improv principle. When we improvise, we must take everything as a gift, because everything is telling us something about…

We’ve seen the motivational quotes, research, countless books, multi-step guides and they all point to presence as a way to improve our lives. Less anxiety. More inner peace. Better connection with others. Improved ability to handle unexpected circumstances. The ability to be present is the super power that seems to…