Wellness


Recent Wellness Articles

4 Steps to Actually Feeling Happier

There are a lot of myths surrounding the state of mind known as "happiness." Here's how you can break them down and start on your own path.  Read more

8 Signs You're a Control Freak

You might not know it, but your controlling behaviors are making your employees batty. Here are a few ways to ease up already.  Read more

24 Things You Can Do With an Extra Hour

Daylight Savings ended and now you have an extra hour every day. Here are 24 things you can do to get the most from that extra hour.  Read more

Best Reason to Go Home Early Today

Contracts and proposals and fame and fortune can wait until tomorrow. Today, even if just for one day, flip your priorities and go home early.  Read more

8 Ways to Keep Your Brain Innovative

When I return from the Serengeti, my brain feels new. It's as if the hot African sun sears away mental fog. You can replicate this--closer to home.  Read more

7 Tips for Creating Your Own Destiny

Are you working on your life or just in it? Here is the perspective and method you need to plan and execute the life and career worthy of your potential.  Read more

Don't Be Stupid. Skip the Red Eye & Get Some Sleep

Before you do any damage, stop encouraging your staffers to take red-eye flights and pull all-nighters. Here's why.  Read more

Make Money & Make the World Better (& What It Has to Do With Your Brain)

When you do something altruistic, your brain releases a squirt of the neurotransmitter Dopamine, and you feel good.  Read more

10 Surprising Things About the Health Care Law

A month after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the health care law, its ramifications are still a mystery to many Americans. Here's what your business should know.  Read more

Free Yourself From Your Desk

Get creative, productive, and happy: Throw on your sneakers and head outside. (Pssst: You'll actually work harder!)  Read more

How to Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone

Always on 24/7? It's not doing you or your company any good. Author and Harvard b-school professor Leslie Perlow on how to break the cycle.  Read more

10 Ways to Motivate Anyone

Understand the unique brain and personality types of your employees to keep them invested in work. You'll see amazing results.  Read more

What’s Wrong with Performance Targets?

Let's start with a kibosh on smart thinking, internal collaboration, and external relationship-building.  Read more

Make Good Decisions: 4 Tips

Wise decision making is not a constant, research shows. But you can set yourself up for success in these straightforward ways.  Read more

Your Prescription for Productivity

Here's how a mind-body approach can help you achieve peak performance--both personally, and company-wide.  Read more

WHO Links Cancer to Cell Phones

A couple of days ago, the official party line from the World Health Organization on cell phones was this: "no adverse health effects have been established...  Read more

Tastefully Simple

Wellness in body and spirit are the keys to happy employment at this gourmet food provider's headquarters.  Read more

Sitting Is Bad for You: What Can You Do About It at Work?

Recent studies suggest sitting for long periods of time is worse than you might think. Here are tips to help sedentary employees stay healthy.  Read more

8 Ways to Promote Wellness in the Workplace

It's a new year and kick starting your wellness program is a way to help your employees achieve one of their new years resolutions—to be healthier.  Read more

Hot Market: Bike Commuters

In urban areas, the average motorist spends nearly two days a year stuck in traffic. Perhaps biking is the answer.  Read more

The Price of a Healthy Staff

Three companies share their employee wellness budgets.  Read more

How to Build a Wellness Program

Starting a wellness program doesn't always mean installing a fitness center and hiring a full-time wellness coach. Here's how to improve your employee's heal...  Read more

10 Ways the CEO Can Reduce Office Stress

The CEO of a company is in the unique position to set the mood for the entire staff. Here are 10 ways to create a Zen office environment.  Read more

How to Encourage Your Employees to Bike to Work

Encouraging your employees to bike to work can be part of your company's overall "green" strategy or simply a way for your employees to stay fit.  Read more

How Does Jack LaLanne Do It?

When he opened his first health club in 1936 at 21, Jack LaLanne helped launch an industry that today brings in $19 billion annually. A tireless advocate for...  View slideshow

Handy Massagers for In-flight Relaxation 

The Goods takes a look at three compact massagers, suitable for taking on a long flight, or working out knots at your desk.   Watch video

A High Style Soireé 

With the help of Vosges Haut-Chocolat owner, Katrina Markoff, we'll show how you can put together a deluxe party that will impress your clients, but won't...  Watch video

High/Low Cuisine with Chef Graham Elliot 

Chefs are the new rock stars, and like Mick Jagger they are pushing boundaries and making art out of the commonplace. Graham Elliot is at the forefront, m...  Watch video

Decompression D'jour 

Acupuncture, relaxation gear, and the best ways to unwind from the stresses plaguing hectic globetrotters.   Watch video

Boardroom Chic(k) 

Find out how to avoid boring, dowdy suits while still managing a look that conveys power and assurance. Combining elegant basics which cool accessories ca...  Watch video

The Alpha Gift Guide 

Gifts for CEOs, execs, and lovers of the eclectic. test  Watch video

Dress for Success 

Clothes, as they say, make the man. Even more true for the modern businessman. A look at some of today's fashion dos -- and more importantly, the fashion ...  Watch video

The A-B-C's of Bespoke Clothing 

Since the 17th century, men of means have bought bespoke. But these dapper handmade suits made popular by Cary Grant and the Beatles are no longer reserve...  Watch video

More Workers Paying for Flu Shots

Employers are shifting workplace health costs onto employees, a study shows.  Read more

Tap in to Your Inner Six Pack 

Life on the road can be tough for business travelers. But a few simple exercises -- from the comfort of your hotel room -- can boost your energy and keep ...  Watch video