When poet, memoirist, screenwriter, film director, jazz singer, dancer, professor, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died last week at the age of 86, I reflected on two thoughts.

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com. A few weeks ago I attended Arianna Huffington’s “Thrive” event in New York City.

  You know the rush that comes when you witness an artist do something excellent? To be in the presence of skill so great it becomes joy is, well, it’s transcendent.

  Time magazine recently wrote up a study conducted and funded by the Max Planck Institute in which researchers determined that stress is contagious (here’s their write-up).

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com. As an entrepreneur, I pride myself on my move-fast-take-no-prisoners approach to work.

  For the past four years, Everest College in Washington has conducted a “Work Stress Survey” to find out what weighs most on Americans about their jobs.

  Something happens at this point in the year: the winter finally releases its frigid death grip, trees sprout their first tender leaves, the world softens and warms.

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com.

  One of the biggest takeaways I got from attending Arianna Huffington’s “Thrive” event in New York City last month was this: Everyone knows they’re stressed and knows they must do someth…

  Sure, there are harder jobs than nonprofit fundraising. International diplomacy, say. Coal mining. But asking people for money, and getting them to give it, still ranks as a Sisyphean task.

This post by Jan Bruce, CEO and co-founder of meQuilibrium, first appeared on Forbes.com. You believe that you’ve got something great to offer.

  Exercise is one of the most potent stress-reducers on the planet—and yet, in the irony of ironies, it’s the one thing far too many of us don’t make time for.