Dr. Natasha Josefowitz was a professor of management for 30 years and is an internationally-known business consultant and keynote speaker. For ten years she had her own weekly program on public radio and a monthly television segment.
Dr. Josefowitz is the best-selling author and award-winning poet of 21 business and poetry books. Her articles and poems have been published in over a hundred newspapers, journals and magazines.
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –When I talk of managing our frantic lives, I usually address women who work and have families. And I always say that they will have two constant companions the rest of their lives: guilt and exhaustion. Women admit to having frantic lives, going from one emergency to another, […]
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — With the new year nearly upon us, most of us have resolved to improve, change, or just do something differently. It might be to exercise more, eat less, kick the caffeine habit, stop smoking, take a class, learn a new language, play a musical instrument, practice more,
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — It used to be that becoming an independent adult was something to look forward to. I couldn’t wait to leave my parents’ home and strike out on my own. Initial poverty was the price to be paid, but pride did not allow my generation to accept any
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Natasha Josefowitz, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–Do you sometimes wonder why we have so much violence, so many wars, gang fighting, genocide? Well, I know: I saw it on TV on National Geographic. This is what I saw: Using underwater photography, cameras focused on a rock with a large sponge attached to the top of
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The most frequent complaint I hear from widows is that when evening comes and they’re alone in their homes, no matter how interesting, exciting, or awful an event occurred during the day, there is no one to share it with. If I have seen a good movie or
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — My husband died a year ago, and I need to morph myself into a single person living in a couples’ world. My landscape has changed dramatically, and, unless one has traveled that road, it is difficult to imagine what it is like. I certainly did not know
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–So much anger in Washington, such acrimony and hatred out of control! What is happening to normally rational people to push them over the edge and make them act out? We read about fanatics and zealots in Africa and in the Middle East, who are extreme in their views,
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA , California –The newspapers are full of traumatic events—from wars to fires to floods to earthquakes, civil unrest seems to be everywhere, all contribute to understandable paranoia. I started thinking about the kinds of fears we all experience and have categorized them under three different types. First, there is what
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California– It starts in the morning: Voice 1: “Get up!” Voice 2: “I’m still sleepy.” Voice 1 impatiently: “You’ll be late for work!” Voice 2, pleading: “Five more minutes.” It goes on at breakfast: Voice 1: “Whole-wheat toast and fruit!” Voice 2: “There’s a doughnut left in the fridge.” Voice
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Yes, it’s possible to make yourself happy even when you’re not feeling it. Some things you should know: • Contrary to popular opinion, satisfaction with life increases with advancing age. • On average, men and women experience emotions similarly, even though women have more fluctuations between positive and negative
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — One of our more difficult endeavors is to find a balance between being so challenged that we lose sleep over it and being so bored with a familiar routine that we are depressed. What makes people satisfied with their lives is the opportunity to grow, gain mastery, and have
Too much to do or not enough? Read More »
Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” So starts the Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities. That was 1859. This is 2010, and it is the worst of times. We’re talking foreclosures and unemployment reaching double digits in California. We’re talking corrupt politicians
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California– This will be a bit complicated, but I think it’s an important insight, and it helped me. I recently received an award as “the most outstanding resident” from SCPH (Southern California Presbyterian Homes) at their annual meeting. Several SCPH communities sent in names of residents, and I was thrilled
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–There are gestures belonging to another time that we don’t use anymore. There were ways of functioning on a daily basis that would seem foreign today. We relied on objects now obsolete. We all have our lists of nostalgia. I remember those wire baskets for the washed lettuce. We
Curtsies, tips of the hat and other lost gestures Read More »
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