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How Often do you Engage in “Prosocial Deception”?
A “Prosocial Deception” is a falsehood spoken without the intent to harm i.e. a white lie: “minor or unimportant lie, especially one uttered in the interests…
July 18, 2017
How to Access Your Best Self?
We don’t always do as well as we know. The challenges of the day are often many; life gives us pop quizzes at the most…
July 6, 2017
Stop Lying… to Yourself
We like to think of ourselves as rational thinkers, coming to objective conclusions about the world around us. Truth be told, study after study has…
June 29, 2017
Why I Can’t Be at Peace Now
The mind, the ego, the subconscious often have multiple reasons why peace must be just around the corner (or difficult/impossible because of some past event)…
June 27, 2017
What Schadenfreude May Say
Schadenfreude is a German word usually defined as experiencing or taking pleasure in the misfortune of others and is derived from Schaden (“damage, misfortune”) and Freude (“joy”). Studies show that…
June 22, 2017
Don’t Let Your Pain Control You
Time heals all wounds… if we do not go back and re-wound ourselves by making the pains of the past the story of our lives,…
June 15, 2017
Who Runs Your Life?
Are you really free if you are bound by habits/desires you fail to muster the willpower to shake? Habits are a fixed way of thinking,…
June 6, 2017
The Undisciplined Pursuit of More
Do you know you? Really, really know yourself? Understand your drives, motivations, triggers, deepest longings, most hidden fears? How self-aware are you truly? How much…
June 1, 2017
Three Secrets to Unhappiness
Nurture Resentments Why rent space in your head to those that don’t love you, to thoughts that don’t serve you? One of my favorite affirmations…
May 25, 2017
5 Ways to Love Yourself Better
1) Become Your Own BFF: Get on over on your own side and stay there! Hush up that inner critic! Objective observation, clear-eyed evaluation, solution-oriented…
May 2, 2017
The Full Glass
Proponents of optimism and positive thinking (of which I am unabashedly an advocate, see links below on the health benefits) tell us to see the…
April 27, 2017