CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.