Don’t Try to Change Your Partner – and Four More Ways to Strengthen Your Relationship
The Guardian · 3 minTake nothing for granted, communicate clearly – and say something nice every single day.
Take nothing for granted, communicate clearly – and say something nice every single day.
Amelia Boone, the world-champion Spartan racer, is a Type A pusher. When she’s not winning Spartan events or racing ultramarathons, she’s a corporate lawyer for Apple. Boone has always set high expectations for herself, and that has undoubtedly helped propel her to the top.
It’s overused. It’s lazy. It’s something that should be stopped.
Go beyond learning from your mistakes.
Think about the design of your plan to change your behavior: is it designed to give you positive feedback or negative feedback?
New year, new page, right? Time to put the old one firmly to bed — especially if it’s 2020 — and muscle up for a (sort of) fresh start.
If there's one area of self-improvement readers have told me they'd like to work on during 2021, it's emotional intelligence. So here are some very simple resolutions for 2021 designed to help you do just that.
The way that you write can have a big impact on your success, especially in the corporate working world. The fewer mistakes you make, the smarter you look. As a writer who spent 14-years working in corporate America, I’ve seen every mistake in the book.
While simple, these phrases help others know that you want to listen, engage, and get to the bottom of the issue. Conflict has many arenas. It happens at home, the office, the family table. Hell, Zoom call conflict is now a regular thing.
How should we read? The S-word makes it sound, like it or not, like a moral injunction—deep, passionate and enthusiastic readers we may well be, there nonetheless remains something about the way we transform marks on a page or screen into images and ideas in the mind that leaves us feeling like fa
Aimed at humans, not gods.
Getting a top-tier MBA has always been an expensive proposition, setting you back something like $200,000 between tuition and living expenses (not to mention lost income). This year there may be even more reason to think long and hard before going to business school.
Thanks to the internet, anything we could ever want to know is just a tap of the smartphone away. That’s great for those of us who constantly crave knowledge. But there’s a huge gulf between knowing something and understanding it.
And how you can develop these traits if you don't have them.
Most people think of self-awareness as a personality trait—something you either have or don’t. But the truth is there’s a lot we can do to become more self-aware… Self-awareness is cultivated through positive habits.
We live on a planet with a population of more than 8 billion. And yet, there is still a sense of isolation and anonymity among us.
In an ever-changing world, today’s married couples have faced many challenges that previous generations have never had to face. The tips, tricks, and marriage advice offered by relationship experts in the past have become outdated in the face of these new challenges.
Motivation is not in high supply these days — but ensuring that we move a little bit every day is more important for us than ever.
As a psychologist, I spend a lot of time talking to people who struggle with low self-esteem. They say things like: Self-esteem is something you can build with better habits.
One of the overwhelming benefits of seeing a mental health professional is being able to glean a new perspective on stressful situations and issues that are affecting your life.
If you’ve ever putzed around the internet, looking for why your relationships might all be screwed up (and screwed up in the same ways, I might add), then you’ve probably come across Attachment Theory.
One of my colleagues at Georgetown recently pointed me toward a 1902 letter that Theodore Roosevelt sent to his son Kermit, who at the time was at boarding school. “I am delighted at all the accounts I receive of how you are doing at Groton.
The idea is that by not doing unnecessary tasks, you can spend time working on the things that really matter. At first blush, this sounds smart. Many things people ask of you aren’t really necessary or can be accomplished more efficiently by someone else.
Here are four ways you can begin to feel more worthy starting right here, right now.
Bored, frustrated, restless, frightened, politically enraged, homebound and free of all fancies this past year, I frequently headed into the strange, sinister badlands of self-improvement for something to do. And there was a lot.