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  • Price of Happiness

        We live in a high-tech, high-touch, instant-gratification society and have conditioned ourselves to believe we need the next best thing…now, no matter the cost.   An increasing trend over the past decade is spending money on experiences over… Read More

  • Emotional Intelligence

      We experience a range of emotions on any given day.  In the moment, we have three behavioral options to manage emotions:  express, compress, or misconstrue.  Emotions are critical to our overall well-being.[Emotions] give us information we can use to… Read More

  • Socially Vogue

      Content is king, according to Bill Gates who coined the term.  Customer engagement today requires enduring innovation.  Breaking through the clutter has never proven more arduous.   Demands for brands to create content daily, sometimes hourly, present the plethora of choices… Read More

  • Power to Attract

    At first thought attractiveness conjures the physical, likely symmetrical faces in swimsuits with six pack abs and flawless skin.  Attractiveness, however, goes much deeper than what is visible to the human eye.  As we all differ, thankfully, what attracts us differs as… Read More

  • Busyness Epidemic

      When was the last time you were bored?  Can we even define the term? In between meetings, emails, voice mails, huddles, agendas, conference calls, reports, KPIs, strategic plans, quarterly updates, presentations, and deadlines…  have we lost something? Day in… Read More

  • Our Inner Voice

      The voice inside your head…  the one that tells you not to have the cookie…  to listen more intently to your spouse… or to leave now or you’ll be late? According to the article, The Voice of Reason inner talk… Read More

  • Forgive and… Forgive

    The Research Group’s beloved home’s presence on the national stage shines light on issues that require attention.  Baltimore is healing because of forgiveness. Whatever your feelings toward these circumstances, our hope is you adopt a stance of forgiveness.  It is… Read More

  • Pet Psychology

    According to Scientific American Mind, the type of pet you adopt is indicative of exclusive and differentiating behaviors. Our definition of Pet in this context is an animal kept primarily for companionship. Nearly two-thirds [71%] of Americans own a pet… Read More

  • This is Serious!

      Our founder, Barbara Gassaway, was recently the kick-off speaker for a day-long summit whereby experts in the medical field presented current VTE insights.  This inaugural VTE Advocacy Summit was sponsored by the Bristol Myers Squibb – Pfizer Alliance in… Read More

  • The BIG Pic

      In this context, The BIG Pic, translates to understanding how our little world-our attitudes, thoughts, and efforts-directly influence a much broader domain. Acknowledging a bigger picture means acquiring the practice of thoughtful perspective on the broader situation.  How what we do… Read More