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Andrea Jacques Talks Wabi-Sabi Wisdom, Balance and More on Find Your New Normal

Watch Kyosei founder, Andrea Jacques, on the Find Your New Normal broadcast with hosts Dave Williams and Sheila Schultz Andrea begins with the origins of her new book, Wabi Sabi Wisdom. The story starts in January 2016. With six books in the works — an overwhelming amount of draft content — she was inspired to finally release something, imperfect as it might be, by a close friend. One month...

How to Remove Stress by Sticking to Priorities

You know that setting priorities is important for success in both business and life. If you are like me, however, sticking to them can cause stress. Why? The very nature of priorities requires choosing some things over others. This past year, I realized that there are actually two different levels that this choice occurs at, and that the secret to reducing stress lies in ensuring you have made the...

4 Ways to Fuel Energy and Well-being at Work

Our last post about staying genki (a Japanese word for energized and enthusiastic) at work focused on physiological strategies for enhancing your well-being. This post focuses on some less tangible strategies to ramp up your energy and enthusiasm in life and work. Identify and Plug Energy Leaks Have you ever experienced that tight feeling in your chest or gut when you do something that doesn’t feel quite right? Maybe you went along...

Celebrate Canada Career Week with Kyosei

Are you passionate about your career? Do you feel like your work energizes and inspires you? Does it allow you the balance and freedom to spend time with friends and family and pursue your other passions? Today marks the first day of Canada Career Week 2015. This year’s theme is “Decent Work, Healthy Lives.” While decent work is important (and not enough people have it), we set our sights...

3 Tips to Boost Your Energy for Life and Work.

During my five-year stint in Japan, one of my favorite (and most used) Japanese words was genki.  Part of the reason for this is that, in Japan, o genki desu ka is used as a common greeting akin to “How are you?” The accepted response, genki desu is the equivalent of “I am fine.” But the reason that this word was co-opted into everyday vernacular by myself and so many other of my English-speaking friends is...