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Cheryl Reif

Cheryl lives and writes with her inspirational family, two energetic dogs, and a small mammal menagerie, all of which are fairly tame. She writes about cool science stuff for children and adults, daydreams about stories and characters 87% of the time, and tries not to plot novels while driving.

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Work Stress and Its Effects

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Earlier this year, I blogged about the link between increased stress and decreased work performance. If you haven’t read the post, do—it will make you think about how stress might be cutting into your creativity, happiness, and productivity.

After that post had been around for a bit, one of the creators of this amazing infographic …

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Things to Love About Life…or: Why Stress Hurts Performance

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This post is part of an ongoing series (first mentioned here) about looking for what’s going right in my writing life. It’s so easy to focus on everything else, don’t you think? On rejections, failed queries, long hours, or negative feedback…and yet, when we start looking for it, there are so many things to celebrate. …

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