by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D.
The word FOMO was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. The Fear of Missing Out is the uneasy feeling, sometimes escalating to an all-consuming fear, that your peers are doing something better than you, or that they have something you desperately want....
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D.
I’ve been writing blog posts since 2008. I get inspiration from my clients, my industry, and occasionally, personal experiences. Those of you who have been loyal readers for a while have seen me fail at my goals, sell my business, roll with an unexpected family...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D.
Your calendar is the shield with which you defend your balanced life. However, too often we treat it as a sponge for other peoples’ priorities. In this video, Dr. Melissa Gratias gives three tips to use your calendar as the important time management tool...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D.
There’s nothing astronomically significant that happens at midnight on December 31st. There’s no “New Year Comet” that flies through the sky. If you really want to get astronomically geeky about it, a year is not really a year. There is a psychological significance,...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D.
I am a rule follower. To an annoying amount. I took my daughter to a music festival recently. Using a ruler, I measured the one-pocket string bag I procured to make sure it did not exceed the size limits posted on the festival website. As I sat on the grass...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D.
Some things that we do to improve our productivity are big things: use a task list rather than memory, say “No” appropriately, block calendar time, etc. Other productivity-improvement efforts are subtle. Understanding task transitions is one of those. But,...
