Designing Your Best Life: An Interview with Pernille and Sine Maria Spiers-Lopez

Pernille Spiers-Lopez is a coach, mentor, public figure, and author. She previously served as the President and CEO of IKEA North America, as well as Global Chief HR Manager for IKEA. Pernille…

Overthinking: Death by Analysis Paralysis

“I have no idea how not to think.”

In my line of work, we often joke about “death by PowerPoint.” You know what I’m talking about–we’ve all been there! Someone walks you through 50 to 100 slides of PowerPoint slides chock full of…

Colleen Waterston — Big Shared World

Literal Shyft was honored to sit down over Skype with Colleen Waterston of Big Shared World. Over the course of 15 months, Colleen traveled to 40 countries, and met with over 700 people, in order to ask them all the same three questions about their values, thoughts…

Do you want to live forever?

Do you want to live forever? In today’s youth obsessed culture, there is big value placed on staying young. But how young and for how long? For most of us, adulthood has been a ride of highs and lows. There have been amazing years, tough years and some we’d like to erase and…

Mindfulness As A Way Of Life

What does it really mean to be mindful? Mindfulness is a term that you may hear or see in so many different settings, given its current popularity. And yet, there are many different ways we can start a conversation about mindfulness, and many different ways to define mindfulness…

Eight Ways for Staying Happy

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It’s a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. Many of us are still trying to pursue that last bit. But what defines the achievement of happiness? Money? Love? Children? And, more…

Reflections On Mindful Eating

Eating is essential and can be pleasurable. It can also be a source of stress, if food is not available, or if food is available, but we have a complicated relationship to eating. All people can suffer from cultural pressures to look in a way that has been elevated as…

Do One Thing at a Time

Last week I was standing at the Chicago airport and noticed a young woman in front of me in the security line. She looked as though she was traveling on business, perhaps returning home after a meeting. She was eating her lunch sandwich while at the same time typing something on her iPad…