Showing posts with label self-help. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-help. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Friday, February 18, 2022

"My Pathetic Little Life:" A case study and questions that may help

Many people fear that their life will never be what they had hoped when they were younger. My Psychology Today article today presents a composite case study, and then I ask questions that may help.

Sunday, February 13, 2022

What Are You Looking Forward To? 29 things that could bring you out of the dump

Krista Kennedy, Flickr, CC 2.0

Especially if you’re down in the dumps, you’d probably welcome something to pull you up. One thing that my clients have found helpful is rather simple: Just think of something you're looking forward to. Or if you can't think of anything, think of something you could do that you'd look forward to.

To illustrate and to trigger your thinking, my Psychology Today article today offers 29 possibilities.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

What I Actually Use From 12 Classic Self-Help Books

Mate Molnar, Wikimedia. CC 3.0

Books offer lots of takeaways. Most important is what we use continually. I have read each of these books long ago. My Psychology Today article today lists the takeaways, that for me, have had staying power.

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

The Half-Hour Autobiography

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 The half-hour autobiography is an activity that can inform your next steps forward. My Psychology Today article today describes how to do it with an example.


Wednesday, October 13, 2021

My Best Advice on Career and on Relationships

    Kevin White, Noun Project, CC

If this were my final post on Psychology Today, I’d make these points. They’re the ones my career and personal coaching clients have found most useful.  At some point, they’ve all been said in this blog, sometimes more than once, but this post aggregates them.

Friday, September 24, 2021

Friday, May 14, 2021

How-To-Do-Life Tips: 41 ideas on personal growth, relationships, work, and more

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When I have a piece of how-to-do-life advice that doesn’t require a blog-length explanation, I post it on Twitter. Their concision may even make them more useful. My Psychology Today article today offers recent favorites.

Friday, April 30, 2021

Capitalizing on Being Bored: A time for the luxury of thinking

Jacob Botter, Flickr, CC 2.0

Many people sit around bored and fill the time watching TV, chatting, or getting high.

At least worth adding to the list is thinking. My Medium,com article today suggests topics and examples of scribblings that can concretize your thinking.

Friday, February 19, 2021

14 Nuggets from Psychology Today’s "Essential Reads"

Vilsekogen, Flickr, CC 2.0

Psychology Today's editors select a small percentage of its blog posts as Essential Reads. Since the previous time I posted a group of nuggets from Essential Reads, the editors have selected hundreds of Essential Reads.

I've reviewed those to select 14 ideas that seem particularly useful and fresh. Each is followed by my comment.

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Becoming Happier

Mobin, area51, Wikimedia, CC 4.0

For most people, happiness is the holy grail, Of course, the question is how to get happier? The ideas in my Psychology Today article today may not sufficiently help clinical mental illness sufferers, but these suggestions should be of value to people with garden-variety malaise.

Monday, December 21, 2020

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

11 Things I’ve Come to Believe

 Mike Zuidgeest, Noun Project, CC S0

We all have long-held beliefs, but it might be more valuable to you if I share my more recently acquired or revised ones. I describe them in my Psychology Today article today.

Monday, October 12, 2020

 

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