Author: Leslie Bosch, PhD

Mediterranean Diet Health Benefits

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on March 20, 2022. Posted in Nutrition.

20SHARESShareTweet If someone mentions the Mediterranean diet to you, what do you imagine? Do you imagine people living in the beautiful Mediterranean eating delicious healthy foods every day? It’s easy to think how great that would be, and it’s not far from the truth! For those who don’t live in the Mediterranean, the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ gained popular awareness back in the sixties. It was about the time when people were becoming aware of the health and...

How to Deal with Regret

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on February 24, 2022. Posted in Resiliency.

25SHARESShareTweet Is regret weighting you down? This article is full of ways to deal with regret effectively. According to Wikipedia regret is “the emotion of wishing one had made a different decision in the past, because the consequences of the decision were unfavorable.” If your feeling regretful, you’re not alone! Top regrets among older people include: not being careful enough when choosing a life partner, not resolving a family...

7 Ways to Create Happiness During Tough Times

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on February 17, 2022. Posted in Resiliency.

40SHARESShareTweet Create happiness during tough times, really? Upheaval drags everyone down. A crisis wears on a person, eroding mood and destroying optimism. As you go into survival mode, it becomes harder and harder to hold onto any kind of joy at all. Instead, your days are taken up with emotions such as worry, anxiety, depression, anger, frustration, and fear. It seems like a pretty tough time to find happiness, doesn’t it? Yet, more than ever, this is...

Is Self-Sabotage Holding You Back?

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on February 6, 2022. Posted in Leadership, Resiliency.

25SHARESShareTweet Often in life, we end up thinking and behaving in ways that self-sabotage our best efforts and hold us back from success. Whether we procrastinate too much, engage in negative self-talk, or don’t take care of ourselves – we make achieving our goals monumentally difficult. The world is complicated enough without us making things harder on ourselves. Let’s identify our self-defeating behaviors and then overcome them. Download...

Conquer Your Quest for Perfection

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on January 10, 2022. Posted in Resiliency.

25SHARESShareTweet If you’re a perfectionist, you probably find that it’s a challenging way to live. In most cases, it’s a road to disappointment and dissatisfaction. It can also have a negative effect on the relationships in your life. It might be time to conquer your quest for perfection. When you’re a perfectionist, it seems like nothing can ever be as perfect as you’d like. Perfectionism consists of demanding a higher level of performance than the...

Turn Your Victim Mindset Around

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on January 9, 2022. Posted in Resiliency.

25SHARESShareTweet Given a setback, do you blame someone else for what’s happened? Do you think that no matter what you do, things aren’t really going to change? When things go wrong, do you tend to beat yourself up? It’s possible you suffer from a manner of thinking known as having a victim mentality. And having a victim mentality won’t get you anywhere in life, so it’s important to learn to overcome it, and fast so that you can take control of your...

Victim Versus Victor Mindset

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on January 9, 2022. Posted in Resiliency.

What’s the difference between a victim and a victor? This article highlights some of the differences between a victim versus a victor mindset. Everyone on this earth experiences a bad or disheartening situation at some point in their lives, but what matters is, how they handle it, what they do next, and how they let it shape them in the end. In essence, your mindset or the way you approach problems in your life will either classify you as a victim or a victor. The following distinctions...

Stop Making Excuses

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on January 4, 2022. Posted in Leadership.

15SHARESShareTweet If there was one thing you could change in your life, what would it be? Would you go back to college to further your career? Start a new career? Lose a few pounds? Quit smoking? Get out of debt? Now… for the million-dollar question: What is really stopping you? Oftentimes, we talk ourselves out of achieving our goals or making our dreams come true because we are entirely too busy coming up with the why not instead of pushing forward and...

Develop a Growth Mindset

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on January 3, 2022. Posted in Leadership.

20SHARESShareTweet Is it possible to develop a growth mindset? Absolutely! If you feel like your current mindset might be holding you back, you can absolutely make some strides to develop and grow. The fact is, even if we have a growth mindset, sometimes we get bogged down with insecurities and failures, which then allows negative self-talk and a defeatist attitude to take hold. Habits are hard to break, especially those we have cultivated for many years. A...

9 Mindsets To Improve Your Life

Written by Leslie Bosch, PhD on January 3, 2022. Posted in Leadership.

35SHARESShareTweet Our mind is a powerful tool. What we think and how we think can make the difference between success and failure. This article features nine mindsets to improve your life. A mindset is a set of beliefs, assumptions, and notions that influence a person’s worldview or philosophy in life. These are deeply held beliefs about who we are and how the world works. All of our habits, experiences, and environment helps form our mindset. We filter how...