What to Do When You Want to Give Up (How to Develop Resilience, Part 2 of 2)
If you read part one of this post, you may have already taken time to consider your resilience record and calibrate a resilient outlook. If so, you’ve recognized that you’re pretty resilient already, and incorporated some added hopefulness into your approach. And that means you’re ready for Step 3: Develop resilience. Here are seven Read more
What to Do When You Want to Give Up (How to Develop Resilience, Part 1 of 2)
I don’t know about you, but those kitten posters have never helped me “Hang in There”. When times get tough, my natural inclination is to claw furiously or let go. It takes work to calmly hang on. It takes developing resilience. According to the American Psychological Association, “Resilience is the process of adapting well Read more
The Introvert Holiday Survival Guide
In a culture that strongly favors extroversion, the season upon us is exceptionally harsh for the introverted. On top of heightened demands for spending and scheduling, comes the expectation for socializing—perhaps the biggest threat to introvert holiday survival. Where you fall on the introvert-extrovert continuum represents how much energy you generate from being alone Read more
Why it’s so hard to apologize
We suck at apologizing. And it’s no wonder. From pre-K to politics, contradictions about how and when to express remorse surround us. A bad start As young kids, one of the first phrases we are prompted to say is, “I’m sorry”. In parallel to lessons espousing honesty, we are taught that apologizing is Read more
How to Be Happy at Work
The idea of “happily ever after” was not introduced to predict or guide professional satisfaction. But dismissing fairytale endings has hardly spared us from imagining dream jobs or wishing for fantastic careers. Those of us fortunate enough to have professional choices chart our careers according to what we predict will make us happy. We Read more
