You’ve just been promoted to supervisor, and you want to build a good relationship with your manager. “What can I say to help her trust me?” you wonder. “How can I tell her I’m the best pick for this job?” Or you’re ready to get back into the dating scene....
The face of the young woman next to us on flight 815 was glowing as she told us she was heading home to spend the holidays with her family. It was easy to imagine the same excited glow coming from my granddaughter as her Facebook postings tracked her eager wait for...
“I love you, but I wish you’d change your underwear more often.” “I love you, and I wish you’d change your underwear more often.” More than 30 years ago, family therapist Virginia Satir wisely called attention to the important difference between these two...
Has my experience ever happened to you? I’m in a workshop at a national conference with a group of mostly strangers. The leader predictably asks us to participate in an icebreaker that, unpredictably, is interesting and novel. I converse for a couple of...
Most of us have only a vague sense of what Quality of Life (QL) means. Wealth? Health? Leisure time? Fame? It seems obvious that a homeless person’s QL is lower than Donald Trump’s. Whitney Houston’s was tragically lower than Michelle Obama’s. But even these examples...
