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To-Do List Out Of Control? Try These 10 Stress-Busters

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:46:15 +0000

Do you get stressed around the holidays with just too much to do? Many of us feel more stress, anxiety and depression during the holidays. In addition to the normal demands of running a start-up and teaching, I’ve got presents to buy, travel to plan and a child to get to college. At last count, I ... Read more

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Time To Choose Your Health Insurance: Don’t Make A $9,000 Mistake

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:23:42 +0000

Is there any financial decision that we dread more than the annual chore of choosing a health insurance plan? It’s got everything we hate: choice and information overload, time pressure, ambiguity and confusion, consequences worth thousands, uncomfortable scenarios involving disease and injury, inscrutable jargon coming at a time of the year full of other business, ... Read more

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Will ‘Decisive’ Make You A Better Decision Maker?

Brett F. Whysel — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:41:22 +0000

“Do you know what you want?” Those six, dreaded words haunt my otherwise happy memory of a meal my friends and I enjoyed to celebrate graduating from university. It seemed such an important occasion: I wanted to get my menu selection exactly right. You can imagine the groans around the table after the third or fourth postponement ... Read more

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Objective: Decision

Brett F. Whysel — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:51:01 +0000

In short an objective decision is a just and fair one, supported by verifiable facts, with which rational and informed people will tend to agree. That said, subjectivity has its place. It's up to us to determine mindfully the degree of objectivity is required in each case.

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How to Decide…How to Help People Decide

Brett F. Whysel — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:08:50 +0000

Think back to the last time you had to make a hard, important decision. Were you picking an asset allocation for your 401k, selecting a health insurance plan or deciding whether it was time to refinance your mortgage? What kind of help did you seek and what kind of help was available? Were you confident ... Read more

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Health Insurance Enrollment: A Superhuman Decision

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:58:58 +0000

Open enrollment for health insurance began November 16 and the decision isn’t any easier than last year. On the contrary, not only are premiums higher and benefits lower, there’s greater uncertainty about the future of the Obama health care act. On a cold, cloudy Sunday afternoon, I analyzed my health insurance choices. Our choices and ... Read more

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Career Advice from a Stoic

Brett F. Whysel — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:00:31 +0000

I recently visited with a 27 year old who asked me for help in figuring out what to do with his life. He is about to start at a prestigious graduate school and is feeling pressure to make some big career decisions quickly. Here’s the letter I wrote him, inspired by Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. Before you ... Read more

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Your Gender: Your Destiny?

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 04:41:28 +0000

How do men and women approach decision-making differently? An evidence-based answer to this question is important: If we want to make better personal, policy and business decisions, the tools and strategies we use will depend on our strengths and weaknesses, which may be correlated with gender. If we want to help others, we need to ... Read more

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Push the Limits on Rational Decision-Making

Brett F. Whysel — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:00:00 +0000

There are three things we need to make wise and rational decisions with confidence: time, information and smarts. Unfortunately, as mere humans, we know that these resources are in short supply. Indeed, the vast range of choices we have to make daily and the overwhelming influx of information and stimuli can limit or confuse all ... Read more

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Your Decision-Making Personality: Myers-Briggs & TAIS

Brett F. Whysel — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 10:49:38 +0000

My college-era friends enjoy reminding me of the time decades ago when I sent the waiter at a fancy restaurant away several times as I struggled to select an entrée from the menu. It was an important decision for me: the dinner out was a rare splurge to celebrate graduation with close friends who were about ... Read more

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