How to Protect (and Respect) Negative Thinking
Does thinking optimistically really bug you? Negative thinking has value too, don't overlook it. In fact we should honour it, a lot of people depend on it.
Mental Health – “I’m not crazy, I’m mad”
This is a great example of how to convey a complete message in about three minutes.
How to Help Someone Change
Most of us spend quite a bit of time trying to change others. Is some relationships this can become the primary objective as one party or both strive to get the other to change, rather than adjusting their own attitudes and behaviour. It isn't fair or realistic to believe that we can change other people. We can get them act differently – through threat, fear or emotional manipulation for example – but change is another matter. People do change, of course. Life is all about growth and development, and inevitably ...
Being the Same While Being Different
Sameness and difference in ourselves have the potential to cause tension. Before you can manage the tension you must recognise that the two drives exist, from then on it's a balancing act.
Please Do Not Reply!
Spammers are a curse. Most of us waste time hating them but a few people get caught by their phishing emails. Here's how one man is fighting back, with humour and commitment.
How to Stop Ruminating
If you are carried away by unwanted thoughts then here are 21 suggestions for getting control.
Argument and Retreat
There are not two ways about it... Or rather, there are, and that is the problem. To settle a dispute you need unity, and hot-headed behaviour can't produce that. First step back, then find a way to come together.
Five Ways to Ruin Your Week
Why waste time striving and trying when you are bound to fall short in some way. We are all too busy, too stressed, without enough time, self-discipline, or whatever, to ever have the peace and contentment that we are told is attainable. Reduce the stress, give up now. Cut to the chase and ruin your week well in advance, then you can stop worrying about it.
How Destructive Thoughts Weaken Us
In this TED talk Amy Morin explains how small habits the might seem without consequence can actually tip the balance aginst our mental strength, leavung us weakened when we most need it.
