Loss of Face Fuels Fighting
Arguments often rumble on because a vital element has been overlooked when trying to resolve them. Respect, or the perceived loss of it, is at the root of many disputes.
Why Your Intelligence Doesn’t Guarantee Your Success and Happiness
You can be highly intelligent and yet still mess up your life. To be happy and successful you need to develop your Emotional Intelligence as well as IQ.
Glue, or How to Avoid a Crisis
Much of it is invisible to us, but glue is holding more together than you'd think. When it comes to relationships though, the bonding agent must be applied before the damage occurs.
Effective Communication – Influence, Understanding and Fulfilment
Effective communicators don't need to impose, their impact is in knowing how to build rapport, listen, and then frame their message.
Too much choice
Is choice good for us? When I was a kid crisps came in one variety, ready-salted. We were a comfortable middle-class family but I only remember having two pairs of shoes - one for home and one for school, and when we left school we got a job (and probably kept it). Now we have choice. Thirty-six varieties of crisp and counting, shoes are a whole fashion industry in themselves, and career planning has spawned an industry! Having many options is not necessarily better for us, in fact it can...
Good Questions Need No Answers
Good questions are at the heart of effective communications and they can also provide keys personal wellbeing. Bad questions keep people stuck where they are and they fail to generate useful responses. Worse, they can actually do the opposite of what is intended by tying us up in knots to sending us round in circles.
Does SM Make You Happier?
'New' things always attract criticism. Social Media is/are no longer new, but there are still plenty of pundits that will tell you that SM is bad. They did that with the use of biros in schools (spoils handwriting), and fast food (unhealthy). Confusing the 'new' thing with how people manage to get into difficulty when using it is an error in thinking. Still, some of it is relevant. Coming back to SM, I've met quite a few people lately who can't break the habit.
Imagination Is the Start of Your Grand Designs
Many people delay their progress because their vision is simply an unattainable grand design. Wishing and hoping won't do it, unless you believe it.
Work-life happiness
There's life and there's the job, right? Wrong. Instead of treating work and home as disjointed parts of the same existence, Anna Tims suggests a change in perception rather than a change in circumstances, and so re-infuse our lives with greater purpose and fulfilment. Work is not necessarily the enemy if it is managed correctly, and it can all be achieved without you having to trek through rain forests, climb a mountain or wear sackcloth.
