My Friendships

Pull-Quotes from my book, Baby Steps

A Mock First-Date Conversation (Example 1)

The Art of Making and Keeping Good Friends

My AI Advisor: A short-short story

The Best of Marty Nemko, 2021 edition is now available

I'm pleased to announce the publication of The Best of Marty Nemko, 2021 edition. 

Here's the blurb. It's a bit puffy but I believe accurate: 

Even if you're already quite successful and content with your life, this 69-pager will enhance your work and personal life. 

Unlike the previous edition, which was 267 pages long, this edition, with all new content, is ruthlessly concise to enhance usability. Despite its brevity, It contains a wealth of the acclaimed, award-winning career and personal advisor's most helpful, not obvious ideas. You will find the hour it takes to read this unusually valuable booklet.

It's only $6. I'd of course welcome your buying it, but perhaps even more, writing an honest review of it on Amazon.

When to Ask and How: At work and in relationships

I’ve often encouraged my clients to ask for what they want, and I've cited this anecdote: An orientation leader at Harvard told the incoming freshmen, “Key to success at Harvard is to ask for what you want, and when they say no, ask someone else.”

That advice is often valid, but your chances of an ask working increase if a little nuance is added: My Psychology Today article today suggests when, in the workplace and in a relationship, the risk/reward ration favors asking, and when it doesn’t. Then I offer a polite and a more assertive approach to making your ask.

Dealing with Your Partner’s Differences From You: Warmth, materialism, diligence, neatness, and judgmentalness

Even when a couple is well-matched, differences usually remain. My Psychology Today article today describes five common differences and sample wording for how you might address each or at least start a conversation about it.

Getting a Good Deal: Job, relationships, purchases, physica and mental health, and overall life.

We all like to get a good deal, but how many not be so obvious. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers some thoughts on how to get an edge in life’s major categories: work, relationships, purchases, physical health, mental health, and overall  in life.

My 34 Best Ideas on Career, Relationships, and the Life Well-Led

I'm entering my 30th year hosting Work with Marty Nemko on an NPR station in San Francisco and for my membership drive show this coming week, I will offer the pieces of advice that my listeners, readers, and career and personal coaching clients have found of greatest value. 

I thought you might find them of value, so I give you an advance look as my PsychologyToday.com article today.

I am honored that many of them were included on the Inspirational Quotations website. That site has pages for the likes of Einstein, Lincoln, and Ben Franklin..and me?!

5 Career and Relationship Tips for Smart Adults

I’ve previously written articles on this topic, for example, Tips for Smart People in a Not-So-Smart World  and Time Management And Procrastination Tips for Smart People.

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers five other ideas.

13 Things Many People Don't Do...but Should: Relationships, Your Internal Self, Career, Money, the Big Picture

This is the third installment of my PsychologyToday.com series. The first was 10 Expressions Everyone Should Stop Saying. The second was, Ten Things Everyone Should Stop Doing.  Today, I post the 3rd:  13 Things Many People Don't Do...but Should.

Straight Talk About Relationships: An Interview with Psychology Today Editor-at-Large, Hara Marano

Hara Marano has covered psychological issues for decades, including 25 years as Editor and now Editor-at-Large at Psychology Today.

So she has read and carefully thought about thousands of expert articles on psychology, especially about romantic and familial relationships.

I interviewed her today. She spoke candidly and instructively both about her own relationships and what she’s learned as an editor and writer. I post that interview as my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Sixers: 39 Tips on How to Do Life in Six Words or Less

In a previous article, I wrote that more change may occur from a one-liner than from a tome.

A reader has asked me to push the limits of that: "What’s the best pieces of advice you can give in a half-dozen words or less?"

I offer 39 in my PsychologyToday.com article today. 

Quickie Video in Which I Describe My New Book, The Best of Marty Nemko

Here's the under-2-minute video I just recorded that describes my new book The Best of Marty Nemko: The best 60 of my 3,000 articles for your worklife, personal life, and for making a difference. 

Those articles previously appeared on TIME.com, TheAtlantic.com, WashingtonPost.com, PsychologyToday.com, etc. It's available on Amazon.com for $12 for the printed version, $8 for the e-book. HERE is the link.

My New Book is Out: "The Best of Marty Nemko"

My new book, The Best of Marty Nemko: The best of his 3,000 articles on career, living, and making a difference is now available both in e-book and printed book.  If you click on this picture of the cover, you can read the small print.

And HERE is the link to it on Amazon.com.  

Open Letter from a 65-Year Old

One way that we older people try to make peace with our growing decrepitude is to pass on what we've learned to the next generation. 

So, for my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer an open letter to people 20 to 50.

My Favorite Tweets: Part V

Every time I come up what I believe is a fresh, useful idea, I archive it as a Twitter tweet. I have posted 2,770.

For PsychologyToday.com, I've selected my favorites among them. I've divided them into groups of 20 to 25. HERE is Part I. HERE is Part II. HERE is Part III. HERE is Part IV.  

Today, I posted Part V.

Unvarnished: Straight Talk on What Works in the Real World

I aggregate lots of my perhaps too blunt advice in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Tweets on How to Do Life (Part III:) 23 one-line pieces of advice on work and on relationships.

In Part III of my list of my favorites from among my 2300 tweets, here are 23 more on work and on relationships. 



Tweets on How to Do Life (Part III)
23 one-line pieces of advice on work and on relationships.