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  Just recently I had a super powerful email discussion about happiness and suffering with the General Manager of a plant. He said, “Suffering is part of life and every individual [...]

So why don’t you stop trying?  Please don’t get me wrong, I want you to do your best every single day because this attitude will benefit you in the long run. Doing your best, even if [...]

It really doesn’t matter what we do every once in a while BUT it certainly matters what we do consistently.  Just recently a Manager said to me, “Karin, I am afraid that I [...]

3 times a week I am at my 6 am bootcamp. The workouts in my bootcamp are called HIIT (high-intensity interval training) and they are super challenging. Our gym has the awesome rule that nobody is [...]

Our mind is miraculous, wonderful and also very complex. I don’t think we take enough advantage of our collective brainpower. What if we would spend more time appreciating different ideas, [...]

Yesterday I wrote about kindness and today I want to reinforce the importance of being assertive.  The definition of assertiveness in the Cambridge Dictionary: “Someone who is assertive [...]

I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend.  It is interesting but every time my posts have the title to be kind, the opening rate is lower. This is a risk I am willing to take because I [...]

Can you believe it is Friday again? Time flies. Week after week goes by and if we don’t strive to get better and more productive at what we do, life can become pretty stressful and [...]

Someone has to tell you and it may as well be me.  It seems the demands are getting bigger and bigger for business owners, management and employees, and it is shocking for me that very few seem [...]

How you start your day matters. It matters a lot.  In North America everyone is on the run. No time for breakfast, no time for lunch and no time to build meaningful relationships. We have built [...]