Ever wish you could just shift gears and live a more satisfying life? I'll bet most of your readers do! Research indicates: 80% of workers are stressed; most Americans don't get enough sleep; half of us say there's no time to do what we want to do. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the use of anti-depressants in America has tripled in the last 10 years. We're stressed, tired, and uninspired.

Not living as we wish affects our health, productivity, and emotional well-being. Harvard's Mind-Body Medical Institute reports that 60-90% of physician visits are stress-related. Chronic stress depresses the immune system and increases the risk of  many health problems. Research indicates that unhappy people not only get sick more often, but they have fewer relationships, and shorter life spans.  Stress costs industry $300 Billion annually (NIOSH).

So, if we want to upgrade our lives, why don't we? For one thing, making positive life changes isn't easy. Ever try to lose weight or quit smoking? We get stuck in a rut of old habits and knee-jerk reactions. Convinced that life is hard and there's nothing we can do, we just accept a less-than-optimal life.

But, in fact, there is much that each of us can do. We can build resilience to life's stresses by managing our energy in waves instead of in a linear fashion. Research on ultradian rhythms indicates that we are hard-wired into recurring effort/rest cycles every 90-120 minutes. If we skip the rest between waves, our minds, bodies, and moods are all affected. It's true  that we can't go back to the days before cell phones, email, and exhausting commutes, but we can adapt and increase our happiness. Martin Seligman and other pioneers in Positive Psychology (featured in the cover story for Time magazine on January 17, 2005) have shown that we can live happier lives by making changes in areas that most affect happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning.

Talk About Living!  provides practical advice for expanding the quality of life. Based on current research and two of my books, Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul and Recharge in Minutes, this weekly column  focuses on how to live each day with less stress, more success, and increased happiness. Topics include deciding what you want next, making changes successfully, managing everyday stress, how to rev up a job that's got you down, tips to focus a mind in overdrive, how to take risks that enliven your life, taming your brain critic, taking mini-vacations wherever you are, why silence is good for your  health, using gratitude to lift your mood, identifying personal strengths, why building on strengths is better than fixing glitches; how laughing unabashedly improves productivity, the double-edged sword of changing your ways, when simple breathing is all you need ...and many more ideas for working and living successfully in the 21st century. Soccer moms, business leaders, hourly employees, retirees, and even school children will learn empowering skills for living well in a 24/7 world.

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Suzanne Zoglio is a life coach, writer, and national speaker. Her PhD is in psychology, and she is the author of Create a Life That Tickles Your Soul (named Outstanding Book of the Year in the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2000), Recharge in Minutes (Tower Hill Press, 2004), Teams At Work: 7 Keys to Success (Tower Hill Press, 1993), and The Participative Leader (McGraw-Hill, 1995). She has contributed to over 30 national publications including diane magazine (Rodale Press), AdvantEdge (Nightingale-Conant), Leadership Excellence (Executive Excellence Publishing), Productivity Digest (Singapore) and these weeklies: Bucks Mont Living, Bucks County Herald, Senior Living Newspapers. Dr. Sue has been quoted as a life-balance expert in Time, Prevention, Family Circle, First for Women, Women's Health, Fitness, Cosmopolitan, and  Essence magazines, and is a contributing columnist for iVillage. com, and soulfulliving.com. She lives in Bucks County, PA.

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