Most of us want to be happier and healthier. There are some good habits we can easily adopt right now that will see us through the coming months in the best shape ever. The most important thing to remember about adopting healthy habits is to add in one at a time, so as not to […]
Smoking is really hard to give up. There’s the physical addiction aspect, of course, but there are also other reasons why it’s so hard to quit. There’s the social aspect of smoking, the emotional aspect of it and the ritual aspect that make it so hard to let go of. You’ll need to deal with […]
Toxic colleagues can make an otherwise great job into a living nightmare. All it takes is one impossible person and a job we love can be a job we need to leave. Sadly, many people today are stressed, angry, unhappy or disturbed, and some of these individuals will take out their problems on the people […]
Anyone who works with other people- and that’s the great majority of us- has had to deal with a difficult co-worker at some point in their career. Whether it’s the office brown-noser, the office gossip, the person who steals your ideas and claims them as their own, or the jealous, competitive colleague who tries to […]
Communicating effectively is possible, but not unless we’re aware of the secret that makes all the difference between being heard and acknowledged, or being misunderstood and rejected. When we learn this secret, we can maximize the possibility of a good response. Without this secret, we’re doomed to frustration, as our attempts at expressing ourselves become […]
It’s September, and the kids are back at school. Things are picking up at work and everything is go-go-go. This is a good time to look at some common workplace problems and how to deal with them. The problem I want to look at today is that of nasty colleagues. What do you do if […]
I just read a very interesting post from September 3 by Rachel Bertsche on Yahoo Parenting. It described how Jessa Duggar is now apparently turning her back on her brother Josh. This is evident, according to the post, by the fact that Jessa recently tweeted a link to a scathing indictment of Josh written by […]
The more information that comes to light about the Duggar family, the more it demonstrates how not to be a parent. They’re the worst of role-models, demonstrating such terrible parental traits as denial, repression, abandonment and hypocrisy, but it’s their failure to deal with serious abuse issues involving their children that leads them to be […]
I’ve been reading some pretty horrifying posts this week about Amazon’s business culture. There was the front page New York Times article, written by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld, a fascinating op-ed piece in the Times by Joe Nocera, and many compelling letters to the editor, responding to the original article. Kantor and Streitfeld describe […]
When I was a kid, I always got a bit stressed, just before the beginning of September. It was hard for me to shift gears from lazy summer mode into intense, driven school mode. Eventually, I figured out a strategy for making the transition as smooth as possible, and having a great school year. By […]
