Posts by Dr. Jay LaGuardia

Engaging in meaningful conversations nowadays has never been as challenging. It is hard to find someone who hasn’t formed a strong opinion on COVID, Politics, race relations or any other controversial issue. What’s missing in society is the ability to have open, honest and unemotional dialogue. Too many people are in immediate attack mode. How…

Each day we are faced with making countless decisions. Most of them are trivial. From the moment we wake up we are processing trillions of bits of information to help us determine the best choices for the day. But what about the times when we are faced with making decisions that are life altering. Do…

Has there been a more controversial topic than COVID-19? How serious is this virus and are the numbers being artificially inflated to make the virus seem worse then it really is? How effective are masks and can they really prevent people from getting sick? How about a potential vaccine, is that the answer? Beside the…

A unique quality happy and successful people share is their ability to accept responsibility for everything in their lives. Unfortunately, taking responsibility is becoming a lost art which has resulted in a nation dominated by whiners and complainers? How did we lose our mental toughness and grit? The simple answer is we have become soft,…

We are facing critical times in our society as the outrage culture dominates the headlines. People are yelling and screaming at each other. We are divided and polarized more than ever. It seems open, honest and unemotional dialogue is a thing of the past. Why is this and what happened to mutual respect? There two…