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• A good organization is good for all the players, A, B, C to Z

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  I am not attracted to elitism; I want to hear solidarity I really don’t like to hear talk about selecting the “top 10%” or managing some people, they so-called talent, differently from other people.  I am not attracted to elitism; I want to hear solidarity.  Partly this is a matter of temperament.  It is ...
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• Shift gears before Christmas with Inpowr

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  New beginnings and getting going I’m shifting gear a little with projects. Some tasks are moving to the perfunctory box ~ get them done and get them done fast.  And I have new tasks that aren’t hard but they aren’t habits yet.  I could easily founder simply because I haven’t done them often enough to slide ...
  2 days ago

• Holiday Stress Relief NOW!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  This post has been co-authored with Dr. Deepak Chopra The human stress response is a survival instinct designed for emergency situations like running away from a predator or fighting to overcome a violent adversary. However stress in modern day life comes from our " fight or flight " instincts being triggered in ...
  2 days ago

• Blog your dream alive! Begin this weekend

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  I can’t start . . . that’s my problem, I don’t know where to start! If you have been scouting the internet for advice on turning your dreams into reality, then you will have come across advice to begin. Just begin! “Arrgh!, you scream. If I knew how to begin, I wouldn’t be asking!” Well, here you go. ...
  2 days ago

• Attitude of Gratitude on a Day of Giving Thanks | Jimboland Jots

  
  Jimboland Jots — Authority: 92
  Rather than being some nebulous idea, gratitude is a powerful aspect of both being and becoming more human. In the USA, we annually celebrate  Thanksgiving as a feast with friends and family. On this day, it is customary for us to pause and be thankful. An Attitude of Gratitude The idea of being grateful, of ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Twilight’ as a positive psychology film: Edward and self-control

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 128
  In this scene from “Twilight,” Edward (Robert Pattinson) is telling his love interest Bella (Kristen Stewart): “It would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I don’t want to be. If you were smart, you’d stay away from me.” Psychologists Jeremy Clyman and Ryan M. Niemiec consider it to be a “very ...
  5 days ago

• The most important choice in your life: Are you big enough to step into your own dreams?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  What do you really want to do in life? Whenever you go near a positive career coach, they are going to ask you what you really want to do in life. Guess what? You are going to list excuses. Because if you were off following your dreams, you wouldn’t be talking to a career coach!! Are you normally a wuss given to ...
  5 days ago

• Can being grumpy improve our thinking?

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 128
  Mood disorders like anxiety and depression generally interfere with thinking and creativity. A variety of writers including Eric Maisel, Kay Redfield Jamison and Tom Wootton express different perspectives on my site Depression and Creativity. There is even a post on Irritable Male Syndrome, about the work of Jed ...
  6 days ago

• Barbara Ehrenreich

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  gave an interview with Robert McChesney about the pernicious "happy talk" crap of "positive thinking," which is nothing more than Horatio Alger crossed with New Age psychobabble. The audio interview is here . I will probably get her book. Being a realist isnt being "negative."
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• Test your positive thinking: make yourself the main character and feel pain

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  How deep is your positive thinking? So you’ve resolved to live happily ever after?  And your friends and colleagues are mocking your for your new found happy ways? The big test Here is the big test for your commitment to happiness. Imagine yourself in the most horrible circumstances Write a short novel with ...
  1 week ago

• Poetry to remind us that withdrawing doesn’t solve rejection

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  Is is easy to retreat from life Barack Obama said of his natural father – he had difficult life because he did not reach out to people. When times are difficult, we tend to retreat from the world.  When we are unpopular in the playground, we pick up our toys and go home.  Then we really have no one to play with ...
  1 week ago

• RECLAIMING SADNESS

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Or the Obligation to Be Up-Beat The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that soon all New York City Metrocards will be stamped "OPTIMISM." Positive thinking, our unofficial national ideology, is becoming harder and harder to escape. Happiness and cheerfulness are good things, to be sure, as are ...
  1 week ago

• MESSAGE #848 THANKSGIVING WAS YESTERDAY...AND TODAY...

  
  GAME. SET. LIFE. — Authority: 130
  I went to a Thanksgiving celebration yesterday. I couldnt decide what to bring... A bottle of wine? Dessert? No, think outside of the box, Ed. So I called on the great Dr. Bob Emmons at UC Davis, the authority on Gratitude, author of "Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier," and Editor of ...
  1 week ago

• The Stuff Happiness is Made Of

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The quest for true happiness is perceived by many to ultimate goal of human existence. When asked what they wish for themselves, most people say that they would like to be happy. Everything else they wish for themselves is just means to an end. While happiness has always been a topic of interest and aspiration, its ...
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• Still Not Happy?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The quest for true happiness is perceived by many to ultimate goal of human existence. When asked what they wish for themselves, most people say that they would like to be happy. Everything else they wish for themselves is just means to an end. While happiness has always been a topic of interest and aspiration, its ...
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• 1001 things we learn from live performers

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  #1  my career is a journey to find my people A good performer jumps on stage, looks out at the audience, and thinks, “Here I am!” A great performer jumps on stage, looks out at the audience, and thinks, “There you are!” Steve Rapson from Art of the Solo Performer contributed by DW from Connecticut, USA ...
  1 week ago

• Attitude and personal growth – “Choose to see what is viable for yourself”

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 128
  From article: Stuck? You May Have Eyes Wide Shut Syndrome , By Valery Satterwhite “I’ve been told that I’m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn’t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.” – Diablo Cody, Writer, “Juno” What seems painful, limiting ...
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• Are you presentologist or a futurologist?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  Presentology or futurology?  Which is your pick? I think most of us think that it is good to defer gratification. Well we know it is.  We all know by now the story of the kids given a marshmallow and told they will get another if they leave it untouched until the experimenter gets back. The 30% of kids who resist ...
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• Brain waves

  
  La Beet — Authority: 112
  In the car today, my youngest son (8) demanded an explanation of the word “depression”. Not sure where he’d picked it up - maybe he was flicking through a magazine at the hairdressers earlier? I tried to explain it to him as best I could and while I was at it, explained to him that his grandmother’s ...
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• Crossing the Rubicon – when vague wish becomes determined intent

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  Some days we wake up determined Today, I woke up with things to do – all the things that somehow never made it on to today’s to do list.  Do you ever have one of those days? Crossing the Rubicon In psychology, we call it “crossing the Rubicon”.  The Rubicon is a river in north Italy.  Ceasar sat the ...
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