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Your Brain Is Like a Nervous Grandmother

Your brain is a lot like a nervous grandmother. I always think of my own Nana — sweet, loving, and absolutely convinced that danger lurked around every corner. If she didn’t hear from us for a few hours, she assumed we had drowned. The presence of water was irrelevant!...

August 3, 2026 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

How to make your brain leave work when you do.

Many of us work in relentless, fast-paced settings. When you spend all those hours in a high-cortisol environment with constant demands, your nervous system doesn’t just “reset” because you left. It stays “on” because it thinks it’s still in the jungle. But as David Allen says, your ability to...

May 11, 2026 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

The #1 Cause of Unhappiness

In our fast paced and overstimulated world, what do you think is the #1 cause of unhappiness? Sure, there are lots of contributing factors, such as poor health and economic insecurity, suffering a loss or a change you didn’t want, etc. Nonetheless, there is one central culprit: overthinking. To...

November 4, 2025 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

Create a Stop Doing List and Start Making Some Cuts

time management training to help professionals be more effective and productive

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” -Peter Drucker Just about all of us would be relieved and have more breathing space by making some cuts in our lives. We only get our time in life under control to the extent that we cut...

July 30, 2025 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

It’s to be expected; it’s a given.

There is a lot of frustration lately. It is helpful to remind ourselves that many of the frustrations we face are completely normal, predictable and to be expected. This allows us to not be so thrown off by them and gives us wisdom and restraint. Some common examples would...

May 12, 2025 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

How to prioritize your sanity in today’s world

Many people are frustrated with what is going on in our country nowadays. There’s something to be said for being a voice of resistance and fighting for change. I think it’s even more important to not waste time and energy on things you cannot influence or change. With the...

March 17, 2025 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

What’s your top story? Who writes your headlines?

Too many of us forget that we are the writer of our own daily headlines. I’m not saying it’s easy. We’re surrounded by distracting noise, negativity, and speculation. The media has figured out the way to get our engagement is to present something that scares us or enrages us....

January 6, 2025 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

How much uncertainty can you comfortably live with?

A huge indicator that determines your level of peace of mind and ability to thrive in life is how much uncertainty you can comfortably live with. The keyword being ‘comfortably’. There’s a plethora of people who go through life uncomfortably, with all sorts of worries and anxieties. Has Thoreau...

September 16, 2024 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

Strengthen Your Prefrontal Cortex

The prefrontal cortex is key to our success and well- being. It’s really the CEO, or happiness center, and overall thought orchestrator of the brain. It’s been shown to be underactive in people with many mental health issues, including bipolar disorder and depression. This is devastating since the prefrontal...

July 1, 2024 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.

How Awesome is your life right now?

There’s value in having a mindset and a focus on how your life could be improved. How things could be better. But far too many of us spend way too much energy on that. We need to do a better job at balancing things out more and also paying...

May 2, 2024 kevin@trainrightinc.com Uncategorized.