Would you rather be around someone who’s depressed, or someone who’s angry? Anyone who’s ever had to live or work with someone who’s chronically depressed or angry knows that it’s no fun. If you suffer from either malady yourself, you’re probably not too thrilled with it either. We tend.
[Read More]Can a single conversation ruin your business? Or end your marriage? Author and leadership expert Susan Scott says, “While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, a company, a relationship or a life – any conversation can.” Scott, the author of Fierce Conversations, writes,.
[Read More]If you’re under thirty-five, you probably don’t remember the days when people smoked in meetings. The image of a bunch of execs puffing away in a conference room seems like something out of an old movie. Your eyes start to water at the mere thought of it. Yet I.
[Read More]I have a love-hate relationship with self-discipline. I love the results, but I hate the process. Discipline can be a loaded word. We tend to think of discipline in terms of punishment. As in, you have to discipline children, or when you do something wrong, the boss takes disciplinary.
[Read More]Leave life to the Pollyannas, and they’ll skip us off the edge of a cliff, clutching a copy of “The Secret” to their chest, passionately chanting, “I believe I can fly, I believe I can fly.”
If only all the Eeyores of the world would start thinking more positively, we.
[Read More]Whether it’s the notion that there’s more than one way to be a proper parent, or the idea our chosen faith might not own the exclusive rights to the divine, we linear thinking humans often have a hard time assimilating multiple points of view. Yet in many.
[Read More]Should humor writers make fun of their families? Should you Facebook old boyfriends?
[Read More]Welcome to the new world, where the popularity contest called life is judged electronically and you can be shunned with the click of a mouse. It’s official, I’m a loser. My daughter refuses to friend me on Facebook. Yes, I am one of the grown-ups who’s making Facebook uncool..
[Read More]It Came Upon a Midnight Buffet Table By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Let the gluttony begin. ’Tis the season of sin. Other families may engage in meaningful religious rituals, but my family is whooping it up at the church of the holy drumstick. Why settle for a single sip of.
[Read More]Holiday Hints for a Happy Wife By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com A chubby guy sops up his bloody nose with a red lace thong. A young groom tries to hide the sparkly, white hand-held mixer jutting from his ear. And a middle-aged man pushing a vacuum cleaner appears to have.
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