It Shouldn’t Take a Crisis
Vinny is due to retire in a year, and terrified at the prospect. He’s done nothing to prepare and has nothing to go to except uncertainty, and probably a lot of TV. Greta had been meaning to slow down and start working flexible hours for a long time, but she won’t have to bother now because stress and ill-health has made the decision for her. Bobby had been planning a lifestyle change by turning a lucrative a hobby – she’s an accomplished painter – into her main occupation. Now she’s been made ...
Work-Life Balance: Not All it’s Cracked Up to Be?
The dogma that good work-life balance improves productivity is called into question by new research from leading academics. The study from the London School of Economics says the assumption that better work-life balance will automatically improve productivity is false. The researchers say that there is no relationship between productivity and work-life balance once good management is accounted for.
Difficult People – sample chapter
Chapter 1: Who are these difficult people? WELCOME to How to Deal With Difficult People. This book is for anyone involved with others – at work or at home – who wants to achieve more fruitful outcomes in a whole range of relationships. It will help you successfully settle those difficult interactions that just won’t resolve themselves. You can learn to handle apparently impossible situations where people just won’t co-operate: ranting bosses, ineffectual co-workers, over-demanding customers, rude or aggressive patients or members of the public who act in unpredictable ways. ...
So Somebody Let You Down, Once Upon a Time
We all carry old stuff around for a variety of reasons. Is what we remember as happening an accurate report of events? Probably not. We can never actually relive it and we are basing today's version of events on the re-constructive processes we call memory. It takes time to learn acceptance and move on from past hurts. Mostly this happens naturally, but some people unwittingly to keep the action going for years, even though it continues to hurt them. If this happens it is better to discuss the impact on...
For your next meeting, take a hike!
Literally? Well, not a hike perhaps as there's generally not enough time, but you can manage a walk. Fresh air drives fresh thinking. Make your next meeting a walk in the park.
No Post On Sundays
Lack of evidence doesn't mean that nothing is happening. Realising that we have a day free of all the bills and junk mail can be a relief.
Therapists Out of Step
Thinking of therapy? Many therapists are uncritically peddling ideas and ideals that lack pragmatism and do not respond to the needs of people now. In an article that is both challenging and fascinating Douglas LeBier says that many therapists have not kept pace with social trends. The result is that often people are not helped at all by their therapy and some end up more troubled than when they began treatment. Here are four questions to ask first.
How Success Coins Failure
Every coin has two sides, and in our freshly minted best intentions we are often thwarted by our own fear of failure. Successful people use a different currency.
Satisfaction and Wellbeing
Wellbeing is as much about outlook as it is about objective health or money in the bank. We have unfettered control over our outlook, our take on life, and how we navigate its tragedies and triumphs. Wellbeing may be a rather abstract concept, because it is difficult to pin down and intensely personal, but it is because of this that we can have personal control over our sense of wellbeing.
